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Streets in the Medina |
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Old names |
New names |
Local name |
Avenue
du Général Poyemireau |
Avenue
Mohammed Zerktouni |
Khodara |
| Avenue
de L´Istiqlal |
Haddada |
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| Avenue
Ogba Ibn Nafii |
Magana |
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Rue
de la Médina |
Avenue
Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdallah |
Mellah
Qadim |
Rue
Victor Hugo |
Rue
Mohammed Al Qori |
Souk
Ouaqa |
Place
du Chayla |
Place
Moulay Hassan |
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street names
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| Boulevard
Al Massira |
Bin
Alaarasi |
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| Avenue
Al Aqaba |
Autoroute |
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| Boulevard
Mohammed V |
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| End
at the Medina and the Port |
Bab
Sbaa |
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| Beginning
of the Boulevard |
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| On
the middle at the Beach |
Dar
Brahim Ohamo |
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The old names reflects the influence of the French
Protectorate. The new names with arabic connotation. Unfortunately, several
well-known important personalities of Essaouira, has not
got any street named after them such as: More about names of persons in: Icons
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Old French name: Rue de Doullen for today Derb Morabitin
Essaouira Medina Chabanat
Names of places |
Notes |
Chbanat, Chabanate Elhanchane, El Hanchane, Errounak HaHa* Oum el Aioun Sidi Abdeljalil Tafouloust (Sidi Kauki) |
*the name of the province in which Mogador is situated; it is also the name of the tribe. ** The word kasbah probably derives from the Turkish kasabe, meaning small town. In contemporary Morocco and all of North Africa, it is generally used to refer to the fortified strong point in a city. |
Names of persons |
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Ahmed El Alj, ("Ahmed the Renegade"), Ahmed el Inglizi ("Ahmed the English") Omar al Alj* Jean Carel
JUBA II** Lahoucine Chahdid Mustapha El Harchi
Sidi Abdeljalil Sidi Ouasmin, Sidi Ouasmine, Sidi Slimane el Jazouli Jewish family names and their origin
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* Omar Al Alj, a brave soldier who fought and died heroically during the bombardment of the city in 1844 by the Prince of Joinville. **Juba II was a berber Berber prince from Numidia who once lived on the Island of Mogador |
Arabic
words |
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| Caid tujjâr al-sultân barakat Casbah, Kasbah, Qasbah, Qassabah, Qsbah cheikh Daour dar dar Dar Al Makhzen derb djebel fquih Hadj Istikhara jmaa Joutiya kasbah khalifa koubba Maâlem malik maqâm marabout mechouar medina mellah Migdal oued souk sultan Tabiya tadelakt wadi Zouak |
Ain = ( ex. Ain Lahjar ) Aït =(ex. Ait Daoud ) Ida = (ex. Ida ou Gourd )
ibn = patronymic ("son of") in Arabic personal names (e.g. Ibn Battuta) douar = the term "douar" means "village [or] a group of rural dwellings" which includes 50 to 400 households, with a more dispersed habitat plain that montagne. It is commonly the basic unit of the rural municipality but douars are not included in the official geographic coding and administrative service to another, and list the names of douars may change.
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The culture |
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Buildings |
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Auguste Beaumier (School) Bab Manjana,
Royal door, Porte Royal,(Magana) CHP Sidi Mohammed
Ben Abdellah (Hospital) |
Arabic words |
Translation in English |
| bab | Door, gate |
| Barakat Mohammed | " blessing
of Mohammed – prophet of Islam". Barakat Mohammed |
| caid | Qadi
is a judge ruling in accordance with the sharia, Islamic religious
law appointed by the ruler of a Muslim country. Because Islam
makes no distinction between religious and secular domains,
qadis' traditionally have jurisdiction over all legal matters
involving Muslims. The judgment of a qadi must be based on
ijmah, the prevailing consensus of the ulema,
Islamic scholars. A qadi must be an adult male. He must be a free man, a Muslim, sane, unconvicted of slander and educated in Islamic science. A kaid or caïd is a title for a leader of a clan , tribu .The residence of the caid was the Kasbah |
| cheikh | sheijk, shaykh, In Berber amghar, It is commonly used to designate an elder of a tribe, a revered wise man, or an Islamic scholar. Leader of the Jmaa. |
| Dar Al Makhzen | Makhzen is a Moroccan Arabic term for the governing elite in Morocco.The Makhzen is a very ancient notion in Morocco, it roughly coincides with the notion of the ancien feudalist state predating The French protectorate. Resident-General General Lyautey a fervent proponent of indirect colonisation, especially in Berber speaking areas, has kept that role and even enhanced it by given an important role to local notabilities such as T'hami El Glaoui, to act as a relay between the population and the French authorities to govern the country |
| dar | "house", '"structure", "place", "land" or "country". |
| djebel | jebl, djebel, mountain |
| douar | Douar
means a rural municipality or a district of a city duwwar = circle of tents |
| fquih | Fqih, faqih, Teacher of Islam, expert in Islamic Law |
| jmaa | the clan, commune, all men in a village, |
| kasbah | A
kasbah (casbah, Qassabah,al-qasbah
) is a type of medina, Islamic city, or fortress
(citadel). It was a place for the local leader to live and as a defense when the city was under attack. A kasbah has high walls which usually have no windows. Sometimes, they were built on the top of hill to make them easier to defend. Some of them were also placed near the entrance of harbors. The "Kasbah" in Essaouira medina is the southern quarters near the port where the foreign consulates was found in the 18-19 th centuries. See Consulates in the medina |
| khalifa | The term caliphate "dominion of a caliph ('successor,'), refers to the first system of government established in Islam, and represented the political unity of the Muslim Ummah (nation). In theory, it is a constitutional republic, which means that the head of state, the Caliph, and other officials are representatives of the people and must govern according to an existing constitutional law that limits the government's power over citizens. califa, |
| koubba | Koubba or Koubbèh (from Arabic koubba = dome, cupola). - Monument erected on the grave of a revered figure, or in a place where he stayed. The koubba, which occur mainly in North Africa, consisting of a cubic part surmounted by a spherical dome or arched, sometimes decorated with a crescent, and their size rarely exceeds 4 meters square, and some of them present in their interior a little room where you can find shelter. In colonial times, the French gave to these constructs the improper name of marabout. |
| Maâlem | maaâlem, master |
| maqâm | house,place, location, rank - also he system of melodic modes used in traditional Arabic music |
| malik | king |
| marabout | saint, holy man, teacher, grave of holy man,shrine See also Koubba |
| mellah | jewish quarters |
| oued | see wadi |
| souk | (weekly) market |
| sultan | Sultan
is a title, with several historical meanings. Originally,
it was an Arabic language abstract noun meaning "strength",
"authority", or "rulership", meaning "authority"
or "power". Later, it came to be used as the title
of certain rulers who claimed almost full sovereignty in practical
terms (i.e. the lack of dependence on any higher ruler), without
claiming the overall caliphate, or it was used to
refer to a powerful governor of a province within the caliphate. The dynasty and lands ruled by a sultan are referred to as a sultanate . |
| toujjar es-soltane, tujjâr al-sultân | sultan's traders |
| wadi | Oued,, a valley or ravine, bounded by relatively steep banks, which in the rainy season becomes a watercourse, a river. Rivers |
| Zouak | Painting on wood |
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