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MEQUINEZ (the Spanish form of the Arabic Miknasa) , a city of Morocco, situated 160o ft. above the sea, about 70 M. from the west coast
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Mequinez at a distance appears a city of palaces, but it possesses few buildings of any note except the palace and the mosque of Mulai Ismail, which serves as the royal burying-place. The palace, founded in 1634, was described in 1821 by John Windus in his Journey to Mequinez (London 1825) as " about 4 M. in circumference, the whole building exceeding massy, and the walls in every part
long and 25 ft. thick." The interior is composed of oblong court-yards surrounded by buildings and arcades. These buildings are more or less square with pyramidal roofs ornamented outside with green glazed tiles, and inside withand tophel,liar(Faust, ed. 1886, i. 25), which is certainly supported by the fact that almost all the names of devils in the magic-books of the 16th century are derived from the Hebrew. 3 Alles was entsteht ist Werth class es zu Grunde geht. richly carved and painted woodwork in Mauresque style. The walls are tiled to a height of 4 or 5 ft., and above they are finished in plaster, whitewashed or carved into filigree work
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ordinary citadel, from which the town gradually developed, taking its name from the Miknasa Berbers.End of Article: MEQUINEZ (the Spanish form of the Arabic Miknasa) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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