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                  Chefchaouen. in Arabic :  شفشاون ‎, also known as Chaouen, is a city in northwest Morocco, it's the chief town of the the province of the same name and is noted for its buildings in shades of blue, Chefchaouen is situated just inland from Tangier and Tetouan. The city was founded in 1471 as a small fortress known as kasbah by Moulay Ali Ibn Rashid Al-Alami and Idris I and through them of the Islamic prophet Muhammed, Al-Alami founded the city to fight the Portuguese invasions of northern Morocco. Along with the Ghomara tribes of the region, many Moriscos and Jews settled here after the Spanish Reconquista in medieval times. In 1920 the Spanish seized Chaouen to form part of Spanish Morocco, Spanish troops imprisoned Abdel-Karim El-Khattabi in the kasbah from 1916 to 1917, after he talked with the German consul Dr Walter Zechlin. In September 1925, in the middle of the Rif War, a rogue squadron of American volunteer pilots, including veterans of World War I, bo

              The Moroccan Sahara includes Saguiet El Hamra to the north and Oued El Dahab "Rio DE Oro" to the south, the total land area of the Moroccan Sahara is 266 000 km square, crossed by the Tropic between the 20th and 30th parallel. It's bordered to the north by Massa Darâa to the east by Algeria to the south by Mauritania and to the west by the Atlantic, most of the reliefs are plains and some table lands which rarely reach 400 meters height. Generally, we can divide the Sahara into different zones: north-eastern part, from Al Atlas ranges to Zemmour hills, which is a rocky desert "Hmada" with steep mountains and hilly relief, water is rare except for some wells which makes life very difficult. The second zone or river zone is located between Oued Drâa to the north and Jat to the west, rivers tend to be depressions where water flows during the short rainy seasons "mainly in fall" this water evaporated because of the hot weather and never r

              Marrakech is the fourth largest city in the Kingdom of Morocco, it's the capital of the mid-southwestern region of Marrakech-Safi, it's located west of the foothills of the Atlas Mountains, Marrakech is situated 580 km southwest Tangier, 327 km southwest of the Moroccan capital of Rabat, 239 km south of Casablanca and 246 km northeast of Agadir. The region has been inhabited by Berber farmers since Neolithic times and numerous stone implements have been unearthed in the area, the city was founded in 1602 by Abu Bakr Ibn Omar, a Chieftain and second cousin of the Almoravid king Yousuf Ibn Tachfin 1061-1106, under the berber dynasty of the Almoravid pious and learned warriors from the desert, as the imperial capital of the Almoravid Empire, the city was one of Morocco's four imperial cities. In the 12th century the Almoravid built many madrasas "Quranic schools" and mosques in Marrakech, developing the community into a trading center for the Maghreb