Historic site in Morocco

Nekor

Nekor is a historic site in the Rif region of Morocco near modern-day Bni Bouayach.

Every way there

Al Aaroui → Nekor
76 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · MAD42–55
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Tétouan → Nekor
151 km · quickest by road, 6h 9m · MAD105–140
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Saïss → Nekor
159 km · quickest by road, 4h 45m · MAD100–130
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Nekor, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Nekor has

YScheduled flightsAl Aaroui (NDR), 72 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 7 timetable feeds for this country, 5 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
YFerriesالحسيمة, 20 km; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Tirhanimîne, 21 km.

35.090°, -3.808°

It was founded by Idris ibn Salih, Emir of the medieval Kingdom of Nekor, between 749 and 761 AD. His son Sa'id I ibn Idris moved the capital to Nekor from Temsaman. At its height, it was described as the greatest center of Berber culture in the region of Rif.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Юрий Д.К (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.