Capture of Fez

سقوط فاس (١٥٧٦)

1576 CE · 984 AH† – 1576 CE · 984 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Fes

Draft card for the capture of Fez in 1576, Abd al-Malik's Ottoman-backed entry into the Moroccan capital; its sources are not yet checked on the page.

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The Gunpowder Empires
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The Gunpowder Empires

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Fes Jdid· Ottoman entry into Fez (964/1554)· The great calamity of Fez, 813 AH· Idris II builds Fez· Fatima al-Fihri founds al-Qarawiyyin· Fatema Mernissi· Fes

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  • al-Dawla al-Uthmaniyya — Ali Muhammad al-Salabi (2001)
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Fes Jdid

The New Town of Fes; when the rebellion's west subsided and Sultan Abu Yusuf Ya'qub ibn Abd al-Haqq's kingship ran steady with a great retinue and many incomers, he chose to lay out a separate city for his residence and armies beside old Fes — Fes Jdid, the Marinids' royal seat — and afterwards ordered the qasba of Miknasa built.