Rabat

Rabat, 'Arabic Ribāṭ', city and capital of Morocco - one of the country's four imperial cities, it is located on the Atlantic coast at the mouth of the Wadi Bou Regreg, opposite the city of Salé. Rabat itself was founded in the 12th century by Ê¿Abd al-Muʾmin, the first Almohad ruler, as a ribāṭ (fortified monastery) at which to quarter the troops for his jihad (holy war) in Spain. He later abandoned his efforts in Spain in order to concentrate his efforts on the conquest of North Africa. It was the third Almohad sultan, AbÅ« YÅ«suf YaÊ¿qÅ«b al-Manṣūr, who named the place Ribāṭ al-Fatḥ ("Camp of Conquest"), from which the name of the present city is derived. He also erected the great fortified wall within which the modern town has developed, and he began construction of an enormous mosque, of which the notable Tower of Hassān, its half-completed minaret, remains. After 1609 the unified community of Rabat-Salé became the home of large numbers of Andalusian Moors who had been driven from Spain and, later, of the so-called Sallee Rovers, the most dreaded of the Barbary pirates (also known as corsairs).

Known residents or houses here

1. Ruach, The Lord of Iron

Adventures involved

1. The Harvest of the Planes Autumn 819wk