Sijilmasa
Sijilmasa was a medieval Moroccan city and trade entrepôt at the northern edge of the Sahara in Morocco. The ruins of the town extend for five miles along the River Ziz in the Tafilalt oasis near the town of Rissani.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: Medieval Moroccan city, previously the center of Tafilalt (also known from it as Sijilmasa during this period)
- Also known as: “Ruines de Sidjilmasa”, “Segellamesse”, “Segelmesse”, “Sidjilmasa”, “Sidjilmâsâ”, “Sidjilmassa”, “Sigelmasse”, “Sigilmassa”, “Sijilmâsa”, “Sijilmassa”, and “Siyilmasa”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rissani and Rissani.
Rissani
Photo: Baca12, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rissani is a town in Errachidia Province in eastern Morocco, located near Erfoud. It is the closest town of significant size to the Erg Chebbi, the largest sand desert in Morocco.
Sijilmasa
- Categories: human settlement, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Errachidia Province, Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
31.28528° or 31° 17′ 7″ northLongitude
-4.27618° or 4° 16′ 34″ westElevation
760 metres (2,493 feet)Open location code
8C3Q7PPF+4GOpenStreetMap ID
node 11897623750OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Sijilmasa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سجلماسة”
- Arabic: “سجلماسه”
- Aragonese: “Sichilmasa”
- Asturian: “Sijilmasa”
- Basque: “Sijilmasa”
- Bengali: “সিজিলমাসা”
- Catalan: “Sigilmasa”
- Catalan: “Sijilmasa”
- Catalan: “Sijilmassa”
- Chinese: “斯基爾馬薩埃米爾國”
- Chinese: “西吉尔马萨”
- Chinese: “錫吉勒馬薩”
- Chinese: “锡吉勒马萨”
- Dutch: “Sijilmasa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سجلماسه”
- Finnish: “Sidjilmasa”
- Finnish: “Sijilmasa”
- Finnish: “Sijilmassa”
- French: “Sedjelmesse”
- French: “Segellamesse”
- French: “Segelmesse”
- French: “Sidjelmassa”
- French: “Sidjilmasa”
- French: “Sidjilmâsâ”
- French: “Sidjilmassa”
- French: “Sidjlimassa”
- French: “Sigelmasse”
- French: “Sijelmassa”
- French: “Sijilmasa”
- French: “Sijilmâsa”
- French: “Sijilmassa”
- German: “Sidschilmasa”
- German: “Sijilmassa”
- Hebrew: “סאגלמאסה”
- Hebrew: “סגלמאסה”
- Hebrew: “סגלמסה”
- Hebrew: “סיג’ילמסה”
- Indonesian: “Sijilmasa”
- Irish: “Sijilmasa”
- Italian: “Sigilmassa”
- Italian: “Sijilmasa”
- Italian: “Sijilmassa”
- Japanese: “シジルマーサ”
- Japanese: “シジルマサ”
- Kabyle: “Isgelmasen”
- Lithuanian: “Sidžilmasa”
- Moroccan Arabic: “سجيلماسة”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sidjilmasa”
- Persian: “سجلماسه”
- Portuguese: “Sidjilmasa”
- Portuguese: “Sijilmasa”
- Portuguese: “Sijilmassa”
- Portuguese: “Sjilmasa”
- Russian: “Сиджилмаса”
- Russian: “Сиджильмаса”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sidžilmasa”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sijilmasa”
- Spanish: “Sigilmasa”
- Spanish: “Sijilmasa”
- Spanish: “Sijilmassa”
- Spanish: “Siyilmasa”
- Turkish: “Sicilmase”
- Ukrainian: “Сіджильмаса”
- Urdu: “سجلماسہ”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sijilmasa”. Photo: Hmidanix, CC BY-SA 4.0.