Marrakesh Property
Marrakech is a modern city which is a far cry from its former incarnation as a stopping off point on the trans-Sahara caravan route. Yet it still retains a Moroccan mystique and a flavour of exoticism, most pungent in its spicy souks and the famous Jemaa el Fna square, home to fire-eaters and street sellers.
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Marrakech has 840,000 inhabitants (2005 estimate), situated in the interior of middle Morocco, just north of the High Atlas mountains, on the Haouz plain and south of the seasonal river Wadi Tensift.
It is the capital of Marrakech-Tensift-El-Haouz region with 3.1 million inhabitants (2005 estimate) and an area of 31,160 km.
Marrakech is now a commercial and touristic centre. Among the industries of Marrakech are processing of fruit, vegetables, and palms, tanning, wool, flour, building materials, leather products, carpets, and mining of lead, zinc, copper, molybdenum and graphite.
Marrakech is a Berber city, with little influence by Arabs. Marrakech has been the capital of Morocco, as well as for smaller countries up through history. There are many monuments in Marrakech, most famous is the Koutoubia mosque. It is the old city, the suuq and the square in front, Jamaa l-Fnaa, that attracts most tourists.
It is from Marrakech that Morocco has received its modern name. Europeans got the name of the city wrong, first reducing the "ch"-sound to s, and later even removing the ending until the French were left with "Maroc" and the English "Morocco".
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