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period (17th-20th centuries). These were generally large open squares located just outside the gates of the palace or occupying a space between the palace's main external entrance and the inner palaces of the sultan's private residence. They were used as reception areas, public squares for
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at the end of the 12th century. It was situated within the administrative and service section of the citadel but it also gave access to the entrance of the sultan's private palaces.
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An official public square or ceremonial space often existed in front of the main entrance or gate of early royal palaces in al-Andalus and North Africa, though the term
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is later used to refer to reception areas or council chambers in the palaces of the region during the 13th-14th centuries and later. A
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also includes a vast esplanade called the Mechouar, and the name is sometimes applied to the whole palace district in general.
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was not necessarily used to designate them in historical sources. Notable examples include the square in front of the
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El Khammar, Abdeltif (2017). "La mosquée de Lālla ʿAwda à Meknès: Histoire, architecture et mobilier en bois".
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would stand or sit on a viewing platform built above the palace gate, as well as the ceremonial
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Mechouars are later found as a standard feature of most royal palaces (usually known as the
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Photograph from 1912 showing sultan's reception at the "
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Harrell, Richard S.; Sobelman, Harvey, eds. (2004).
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Index

Mechouar, Casablanca

Meknes
Morocco
Kasbah of Moulay Ismail
Arabic
romanized
Spanish
French
courtyard
public square
Maghreb
North Africa
al-Andalus
Spain
Portugal
citadel

portico
Madinat al-Zahra
Cordoba
Umayyad Palaces
Cordoba
Spain
public executions
caliph
Bayn al-Qasrayn
Fatimid Palaces
Cairo
Egypt

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