Hajja is a settlement in western coastal
Morocco near
Rabat
Rabat (, also , ; ar, الرِّبَاط, er-Ribât; ber, ⵕⵕⴱⴰⵟ, ṛṛbaṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan populati ...
. The earliest
recorded history of the general vicinity is associated with the now
ruined
Ruins () are the remains of a civilization's architecture. The term refers to formerly intact structures that have fallen into a state of partial or total disrepair over time due to a variety of factors, such as lack of maintenance, deliberat ...
Chellah along the estuarine portion of the
Oued Bou Regreg. Chellah was originally settled by the
Phoenicians and later became a
Roman settlement.
C. Michael Hogan, ''Chellah'', The Megalithic Portal, ed. A. Burnham
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See also
* Chellah
References
Populated places in Rabat-Salé-Kénitra
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