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Friday 13 March 2015

The Almouravid Koubba



The Almoravid Koubba is next to the Museum of Marrakech and near to the mosque of Ben Youssef .
It is the only remaining example of Almoravid architecture in Marrakech .it was built in 1117 , was restructured in the sixteenth and nineteenth century, was redscovered in 1948 and excavated in 1952 , after having being buried beneath one of the outbuildings of the Ben Youssef Mosque. 
The Almouravid were Berber dynasty of Morocco , who formed an empire in the 11 th century that stretched over the western Maghreb and Al-Andalus .
They capital was Marrakesh ,a city w which they founded in 1062 .

Picture from Wikimedia ♥



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