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Place · North Africa

Marrakesh

A Moroccan capital whose mellah was created in the sixteenth century.

31.6319°N 8.0019°W · representative coordinate · approximate · Natural Earth Marrakesh ↗

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Marrakesh's mellah arose in the mid-sixteenth century within a dynastic urban project. Marrakesh's mellah also housed Christian foreigners and a Franciscan church.

Community: Jews of Marrakesh, settled in a dynastic mellah.

Marrakesh's mellah arose in the mid-sixteenth century within a dynastic urban project.