In Morocco. Edith Wharton

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twelve thousand horses could be stabled in it. The flooring rested on vaults in which the grain for the horses was stored.... He also built the palace of Elmansour, which had twenty cupolas; from the top of each cupola one could look forth on the plain and the mountains around Meknez. All about the stables the rarest trees were planted. Within the walls were fifty palaces, each with its own mosque and its baths. Never was such a thing known in any country, Arab or foreign, pagan or Moslem. The guarding of the doors of these palaces was intrusted to twelve hundred black eunuchs."

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      Village of tents. The village of mud-huts is called a nourwal.

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      Saint's tomb. The saint himself is called a marabout.

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      Citadel.

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Village of tents. The village of mud-huts is called a nourwal.

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Saint's tomb. The saint himself is called a marabout.

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Citadel.

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The Moroccan inn or caravanserai.

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The high plateau-and-hill formation between Tangier and Fez.

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So called to distinguish them from the tent villages of the less settled groups.

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Sacred college.

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The citadal of old Meknez.