Fes

Fès Fas / ⴼⴰⵙ / فاس Fez
View of the medina (old city) of Fes
Fès Location in Morocco
Coordinates: 34°2′N 5°0′W
Kintra	Morocco
Region	Fès-Boulemane
Foondit	789
Foondit bi	Idrisid dynasty
Govrenment
• Mayor	Hamid Chabat
• Govrenor	Mohamed Rerrhabi
Elevation	410 m (1,350 ft)
Population  (2012)
• Total	1,044,376
• Rank	3rd in Morocco
Racial makeup
• Arabs	53.6%
• Berbers	32.7%
• Moriscos	10.2%
• Ithers	3.5%
Website	www.fes-city.com

Fes or Fez (Arabic: فاس‎, romanised: fās, French: Fès) is the seicont lairgest ceety o Morocco —efter Casablanca, wi a population o juist ower ane million. It's the caipital o the Fès-Boulemane region.

Fes, the umwhile caipital, is ane o the kintra's fower "imperial ceeties," the ithers bein Rabat, Marrakech an Meknes. It comprises three distinct pairts, Fes el Bali (the auld, wawed ceety), Fes-Jdid (new Fes, hame o the Mellah) an the Ville Nouvelle (the French-creatit, newest section o Fes).

Fes el Bali is a UNESCO Warld Heritage Steid. Its medina, the lairger o the twa medinas o Fes, is believed tae be the warld's lairgest contiguous caur-free urban aurie. The University o Al-Karaouine, foondit in AD 859, is the auldest continuously functionin varsity in the warld.

Internaitional relations

Main airticle: Leet o twin touns an sister ceeties in Morocco

Twin touns — Sister ceeties

Fes is twinned wi:

• Montpellier, Fraunce, syne 1961
• Strasbourg, Fraunce, syne 1961
• Florence, Italy, syne 1961)
• Kairouan, Tunisie, syne 1965
• Saunt Louis, Senegal, syne 1979
• East Jerusalem, Palestine, syne 1982
• Coimbra, Portugal
• Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, syne 2003
• Lahore, Pakistan
• Suwon, Sooth Korea, syne 2003
• İzmir, Turkey, syne 1995
• Puebla, Mexico

Partnerships

• Kraków in Poland (syne 1985)

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