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RABAT (Ribat)

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 766 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PYR-RAY
RABAT (Ribat) , a city on the
Atlantic
 
coast
  of Morocco, in 340 3' N., 6 46' W., 130 M. S. of Cape Spartel, on the southern side and at the mouth of the Bu Ragrag, which separates it from Salli on the northern bank. It is a commercial town of about 26,000 to 30,000 inhabitants, occupying a rocky
plateau
  and surrounded by massive but dilapidated walls, strengthened by three forts on the seaward side. To the
south
  of the town stands a modern palace, defended by earth-works and Krupp guns. The conspicuous feature in the view. from the ocean is the Borj el Hasan, an unfinished square-built tower, 145 ft. high, built on an
elevation
  about 65 ft. above the sea to the west of the walled town. At one time the Bu Ragrag afforded a much better harbour than it does now; the roadstead is quite unprotected, and there is a dangerous bar at the mouth of the river, which hampers the shipping, and makes the growth of
trade
  slow. The depth of water over the bar varies from 7 to 12 ft. Rabat trades with Fez and the interior of Morocco, with the neighbouring
coast
  towns and Gibraltar, and with
Marseilles
 , Manchester and London, and is the greatest industrial centre in Morocco.
Rabat was founded by Yak'ub el Mansur in 1184, but Salli was then already an ancient city, and on the scarped hills to the west of Rabat stand the ruins of Sala, a Roman colony, known as Shella. It contains a
mausoleum
  of the Beni Marin dynasty.


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