{"slug": "marrakesh", "label": "Marrakesh", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrakesh", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101625", "qid": "Q101625", "description": "city in Marrakesh-Safi, Morocco", "entries": 9, "years": 9, "span": [1062, 1767], "span_label": ["1062 CE", "1767 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "morocco", "label": "Morocco", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "almohad-caliphate", "label": "Almohad Caliphate", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "september", "label": "September", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "maghreb", "label": "Maghreb", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "abu-yusuf-yaqub-ibn-abd-al-haqq", "label": "Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd al-Haqq", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "marinid-dynasty", "label": "Marinid dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "songhai-empire", "label": "Songhai Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "spanish-empire", "label": "Spanish Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "al-andalus", "label": "Al-Andalus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "almoravid-dynasty", "label": "Almoravid dynasty", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1062, "year_label": "1062 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Marrakesh is founded by the Almoravids which becomes their capital.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361243522#Africa", "title": "1062", "revid": 1361243522, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1147, "year_label": "1147 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – The Almohads under Abd al-Mu'min destroy the Almoravid Empire. They capture Marrakesh and kill the last emir, Ishaq ibn Ali. Abd al-Mu'min orders the elimination of 30,000 Almoravids in a purge.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362163362#Africa", "title": "1147", "revid": 1362163362, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1199, "year_label": "1199 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 23", "text": "January 23 – Caliph Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur dies at Marrakesh after a 15-year reign in which he has defeated the Castilian forces of King Alfonso VIII (the noble) (see 1195) and other Christian enemies in Al-Andalus. He is succeeded by his son Muhammad al-Nasir as ruler of the Almohad Caliphate (until 1213).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369187159#Africa", "title": "1199", "revid": 1369187159, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1224, "year_label": "1224 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September", "text": "September – Abdallah al-Adil (the Just), governor in Al-Andalus, challenges the Almohad throne and captures Seville. He marches to Marrakesh to confront Abu Muhammad al-Wahid. Abdallah seizes the royal palace and deposes Muhammad al-Wahid, who is strangled to death.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369561506#July_–_September", "title": "1224", "revid": 1369561506, "section": "Events › July – September"}}, {"year": 1269, "year_label": "1269 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 8", "text": "September 8 – Berber forces of the Marinid Sultanate under Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd al-Haqq complete the conquest of Morocco and capture Marrakesh after a long siege, effectively ending the Almohad Caliphate. The last Almohad ruler, Idris al-Wathiq (or Abu Dabbus), is assassinated by a slave. The Marinids become the new masters of the western Maghreb and Abu Yusuf Yaqub takes up the title of \"Prince of the Muslims\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1343645386#Africa", "title": "1269", "revid": 1343645386, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1374, "year_label": "1374 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Princes from the Kingdom of Granada choose Abu al-Abbas Ahmad to succeed Muhammad as-Said, as Sultan of the Marinid Empire in Morocco. The Empire is split into the Kingdom of Fez and the Kingdom of Marrakesh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369753981#Date_unknown", "title": "1374", "revid": 1369753981, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1515, "year_label": "1515 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 23", "text": "April 23 – In Portuguese-occupied Morocco, the Governor of Safi, Nuno Fernandes de Ataíde, conducts an unsuccessful attack on Marrakesh, and is forced to retreat by defenders led by the Emir Nasr ibn Chentaf al-Hintati.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362498078#April–June", "title": "1515", "revid": 1362498078, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1590, "year_label": "1590 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 16", "text": "October 16 – Saadian invasion of the Songhai Empire: An army of 20,000 troops, led by Judar Pasha is dispatched from Marrakesh in the Saadi Sultanate (now Morocco), on orders of Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur. The Saadi Army's objective is to conquer the Songhai Empire, led by the Emperor Askia Ishaq II, in North Africa, corresponding to what is now the Republic of Mali.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369164716#October–December", "title": "1590", "revid": 1369164716, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1767, "year_label": "1767 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 16", "text": "May 16 – Ahmed al-Ghazzal, the emissary from Sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah of Morocco to the Spanish Empire, makes a triumphant return to Marrakesh with almost 300 Muslims who had been held captive in Spain, as well as sacred Islamic manuscripts that had been seized by the Spanish in 1612. The negotiation of the release had started with al-Ghazzal's meeting with Spain's King Carlos III on August 21, 1766.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365587024#April–June", "title": "1767", "revid": 1365587024, "section": "Events › April–June"}}]}