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.
- Ruin
- …lies at an elevation of around 760 metres (2,490 feet)
- 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”“Sidjilmâs┓Sidjilmassa”“Sigelmasse”“Sigilmassa”“Sijilmassa”“Siyilmasa”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rissani and Rissani.
Rissani
Rissani is a town in Errachidia Province in eastern Morocco, located near Erfoud.
Sijilmasa
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Latitude
31.28° or 31° 16′ 48″ north
Longitude
-4.28° or 4° 16′ 48″ west
Open location code
8C3Q7PJ9+2X
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“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: “Sidjilmâsâ”
- French: “Sidjilmassa”
- French: “Sidjlimassa”
- French: “Sigelmasse”
- French: “Sijelmassa”
- French: “Sijilmâsa”
- French: “Sijilmassa”
- German: “Sidschilmasa”
- German: “Sijilmassa”
- Hebrew: “סאגלמאסה”
- Hebrew: “סגלמאסה”
- Hebrew: “סגלמסה”
- Hebrew: “סיג’ילמסה”
- Hindi: “सिजिलमासा”
- 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: “Segelmeça”
- 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”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⴳⵍⵎⵓⵙ”
- Turkish: “Sicilmase”
- Ukrainian: “Сіджильмаса”
- Urdu: “سجلماسہ”
- Western Panjabi: “سجلماسہ”
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