18th century
Reign of Moulay Yazid
1791·Mogador
Toll
inconnu
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
the mellah plundered
Mogador, a port opened a few decades earlier for trade with Europe, saw its mellah pillaged during the same unrest.
The community there was distinctive: it included the sultan's merchants, privileged traders operating with European houses. This status did not protect the quarter. It would, however, explain the swiftness of its recovery, the port having need of these intermediaries — and Mogador would once again become, within half a century, one of the most prosperous communities in Morocco.
- Period :
- 18th century
- Type :
- Massacre
- Region :
- Egypt and Maghreb
- Country :
- Maroc
Sources
Chroniques marocaines ; archives consulaires européennes.