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Facts About Aghmat

Aghmat (Berber: A?mat, pronounced locally Ughmat, U?mat) was an important commercial medieval Berber town in mid-southern Morocco. It is today an archaeological site known as "Joumâa Aghmat".
The city is located approximately 30 km south-east of Marrakesh, on the Ourika road. The initial "A" of the name may be unvocalized, and the name may sometimes be spelled Ghmat, Ghmate or even French-style Rhmate (as it appears in the Michelin Guide).
According to a Berber legend, Aghmat was populated by Christian Berbers when it was conquered in 683 by the Muslim forces of Uqba ibn Nafi, a general of the Umayyad Caliphate in Syria. However, this story first surfaces almost 700 years after that date, and many historians give it no credibility. It is directly contradicted by one of the earliest Persian historians, al-Baladhuri. who states that Musa bin Nusair conquered the Sous and erected the mosque at Aghm?t. However, the Umayyad Islamic conquest of present-day Morocco is under doubt and some modern historians question whether it ever took place given the absence of any evidence for it like coins and monuments.