Asilah
Sign in to saveAsilah () is a fortified town on the northwest tip of the Atlantic coast of Morocco, about south of Tangier. Its ramparts and gateworks remain fully intact.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Asilah
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_caption
- Clockwise from top: seaside walls and cemetery of the medina; street inside the medina; Grand Mosque; seaside view of the city; coastline near the city; a roundabout in the modern town.
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Morocco#Africa
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- 1
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 250
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Morocco
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Province
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Imperial
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2014
- Settlement.population_total
- 31,147
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- Assilah
- Country
- Portuguese Empire
- Located in
- Tangier-Assilah Prefecture
- Population
- 36039
- Elevation
- 2
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Head of government
- Mohamed Benaissa
- Image
- Asilah (36750513531).jpg
- Households
- 9745
Show 5 more facts
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Asilah
- twinned administrative body
- Sintra
- native label
- ⴰⵚⵉⵍⴰ
- Commons category
- Asilah
- inception
- 1500-00-00
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
14 sectionsContents
- History
- Culture
- Notable landmarks
- The medina
- Walls and towers
- Grand Mosque of Asilah
- Raisuli Palace
- Sidi Mansour cemetery
- Church of San Bartolome
- Kahal Synagogue and Jewish cemetery
- Notable people
- References
- Citations
- Bibliography
Asilah () is a fortified town on the northwest tip of the Atlantic coast of Morocco, about south of Tangier. Its ramparts and gateworks remain fully intact.
==History==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Asilah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations