See also:

• MEQUINEZ (the Spanish form of the Arabic Miknasa)

MEQUINEZ (the See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of the Arabic Miknasa)  , a See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of See also:

• MOROCCO

Morocco, situated 160o ft. above the See also:

• SEA (in O. Eng. sae, a common Teutonic word; cf. Ger. See, Dutch Zee, &c.; the ultimate source is uncertain)
• SEA, COMMAND OF THE

sea, about 70 M. from the See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast and 36 m . W.S.W. of See also:

• FEZ (Fes)

Fez, on the road to See also:

• RABAT (Ribat)

Rabat, in 330 56' N., 5° 50' W . The See also:

• TOWN

town See also:

• WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the original O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
• WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

wall with its four-cornered towers is pierced by nine See also:

• GATES, HORATIO (1728-1806)

gates, one, the Bab Bardain, with See also:

• FINE

fine See also:

• TILE (0. Eng. tigel, Fr. tuile, connected with Lat. tegula)

tile-See also:

• WORK

work . A See also:

• LOWER

lower wall of wider See also:

• CIRCUIT (Lat. circuitus, from circum, round, and ire, to go)

circuit protects the luxuriant gardens in the outskirts . See also:

• MEQUINEZ (the Spanish form of the Arabic Miknasa)

Mequinez at a distance appears a city of palaces, but it possesses few buildings of any See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note except the See also:

• PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace and the See also:

• MOSQUE (through Fr. mosquie; Span. mezquila, from Arab. masjid, sajada, to adore)

mosque of Mulai See also:

• ISMAIL (1830-1895)

Ismail, which serves as the royal burying-See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place . The palace, founded in 1634, was described in 1821 by See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John Windus in his See also:

• JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

Journey to Mequinez (See also:

• LONDON

London 1825) as " about 4 M. in circumference, the whole See also:

• BUILDING

building exceeding massy, and the walls in every See also:

• PART

part very thick; the outward one about a mile See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long and 25 ft. thick." The interior is composed of oblong See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court-yards surrounded by buildings and arcades . These buildings are more or less square with pyramidal See also:

• ROOFS

roofs ornamented outside with See also:

• GREEN, A
• GREEN, ALEXANDER HENRY (1832—1896)
• GREEN, DUFF (1791—1875)
• GREEN, JOHN RICHARD (1837—1883)
• GREEN, MATTHEW (1696-1737)
• GREEN, THOMAS HILL (1836-1882)
• GREEN, VALENTINE (1739–1813)
• GREEN, WILLIAM HENRY (.1825–1900)

green glazed tiles, and inside with and tophel,liar(See also:

• FAUST, or FAUSTUS

Faust, ed . 1886, i . 25), which is certainly supported by the fact that almost all the names of devils in the magic-books of the 16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century are derived from the See also:

• HEBREW

Hebrew . 3 Alles was entsteht ist See also:

• WERTH [WEERT], JOHANN, COUNT VON (c. 1595-1652)

Werth class es zu Grunde geht . richly carved and painted woodwork in Mauresque See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style . The walls are tiled to a height of 4 or 5 ft., and above they are finished in See also:

• PLASTER

plaster, whitewashed or carved into See also:

• FILIGREE (formerly written filigrann or filigrane; the Ital. filigrana, Fr. filigrane, Span. filigrana, Ger. Drahtgefiecht)

filigree work .

The See also:

• POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population See also:

• NUMBERS, BOOK OF
• NUMBERS, PARTITION OF

numbers being between See also:

• THIRTY

thirty and See also:

• FORTY

forty thousand . See also:

• IDRISI, or EDRISI [Abu Abdallah Mahommed Ibn Mahommed Ibn Abdallah Ibn Idrisi, c. A.D. 1099-1154]

Idrisi, See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing in A.D . 1100, calls the place Takarart, and describes it as an See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary citadel, from which the town gradually See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed, taking its name from the Miknasa See also:

• BERBERS

Berbers .