Tinmel

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Tinmel (also Tin Mal) is a small moutainious village High Atlas in N'ffis valley at 100 km of Marrakech. The Almohad conquerors left this village to conduct their military campaigns against the Almoravids.

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With the seizure of Marrakech in 1147, Tinmel becomes the spiritual capital and the artistic centre of the Almohad empire. After the decline of the dynasty, it became again a simple village of the High Atlas.

Today, there remain only some ruins of the wall which surrounded the city and those of the large mosque. Tinmel occupies however a paramount place in the history of Morocco and the Maghreb.

In Tinmel the Almohad dirham, symbol of its economic prosperity, was struck. ^[1]

The village still is home of the tombs of the Almohad rulers.