For certain old authors,
this gate which has an old name masmodian origin, indicated, at
least until XVIème, a very wide territory whose southern
limit was the Tensift river and who included, in addition to the
current area of Doukkala, what constitutes today the territories
of Abda, Ahmer, Rehamna and those of Sgharna.
Most of the whole of Bab Doukkala is detached
in the middle of the “North-western” wall from Marrakech.
One could observe that the plan of Bab Doukkala is single by its
architecture; space with open sky appeared at the same time as
a new turning in the bent passage.
It is in this old Almoravide fortress that
we will find elements of relationship with “Bab Doukkala”.
We observe the same plan in the enclosure of Tunis at a dynasty
heiress of Almohades: “Bab El-Jdid” built by the Hafsid
Khalif Al-Watiq in 1276; Another “Bab El-Jdid” in
Mahdiya, built at the XVII century, remained in conformity with
the tradition.
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