Tafilalt

Tafilalt was an oasis region on the Ziz in south-eastern Morocco, centred on Sijilmasa, a terminus of the trans-Saharan caravan trade. In 1337 a Marinid prince held it as a fief of Fez.

Ibn Battuta stopped at Sijilmasa in 1352 before crossing the Sahara to Mali. The medieval city declined after its townspeople killed their last prince; Leo Africanus found it abandoned within its walls in the early sixteenth century. Rebuilt under Sultan Moulay Ismail, it was sacked by Aït Atta tribesmen in 1818.