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Until the 15th century In the country inhabited by independent Berber tribes, Phoenician, later Carthaginian influences were only significant in a few coastal places (around 1100–146 BC). In AD 42, Morocco was combined with parts of what would later become Algeria to form the Roman province of Mauretania Tingitana ( Mauretania ). In the 5th… Read More »

Yearbook 2012 Morocco. The restrictions on women’s right to control their own bodies became more and more prominent. In March, protest demonstrations were held after a 16-year-old girl was killed after being forced to marry an elderly man who had previously raped her. A court had ordered the marriage in accordance with a law that… Read More »