Badis (town)
Badis was a town in Morocco, 110 km southeast of Tétouan, between the territory of the Ghomara and the Rif; the Banu Yattufat (Ait Yitufut) live in the area. History Badis was part of the Kingdom of Nekor, and after the Idrisids, Almoravids, Almohads, and Marinids; the last three dynasties used it as a naval base. It had some importance under the Marinid sultan Abu Said () and paid the same taxes—1000 ''dinars''—as Melilla and Larache. Badis had an arsenal and shipyards. The population engaged in fishing and piracy and was the seat of the governor of the Rif that embraced the entire coast and some inland tribes (Bukkuya, Banu Mansur, Banu Khalid, Banu Yadir). In his visit to the town, Leo Africanus described it as having 600 households. About 100 meters, there are two rocky islets, the largest called ''Hajar Badis'', which the Spaniards call Peñón de Vélez, and which they occupied in 1508, an occupation that lasted until 1520. In 1526 the Wattasid sultan Abu Hassun, d ...
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