Region
Fez-Meknes
History
The cradle of the Moroccan state. Idris I arrived here in 788; Fes became the country's spiritual and scholarly capital, and Meknes the imperial city of Moulay Ismail. Roman Volubilis and the cedar forests of the Middle Atlas are part of it too.
Key dates
788
Idris I is proclaimed at Volubilis: start of the Idrisid dynasty.
859
Fatima al-Fihri founds al-Qarawiyyin in Fes.
1672
Moulay Ismail makes Meknes his capital.
