Preview of Nietsreuef's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Rabat, Morocco Entry Title: "Rabat Chellah" Entry: "As the Sahara Desert was turning from a grassland into a desert in the 12th century BC, the Phoenicians were colonizing the Mediterranean, trying to outpace the Greeks for trading opportunities. They succeeded at one of the few natural harbors along the North African Atlantic coast, on the banks of the Bou Regreg river, near present day Rabat, where they established a port city, later called Chellah, a trading post that complimented their enterprises at Larache to the North and Essouaria to the South. A thousand years later, in 40 BC, the Romans established the Southwestern extent of their empire on the site of the Chellah, renaming the operation Sala Colonia, according to Ptolemy, and proceeded to manage the production and transport of food, wine and olive oil to serve the demands of the 45 million Roman subjects. Historically, the Romans were driven out of Morocco by the local Berber tribes in AD 250, but there is evidence of Roman inscriptions found in the Chellah from 350-400 AD, an awkward fact that local historians are trying to resolve. In the early 12th century AD, at the end of the Middle Ages in Europe, the Muslim Almohad ruler Abdul-Mu'min, began to redevelop the Chellah as a fortress from which to conduct attacks and supply ...
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