Salé

The Phoenicians established a settlement called Sala,{{cite book|author=Glenn Markoe|title=Phoenicians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=smPZ-ou74EwC&pg=PA188|year=2000|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-22614-2|page=188}}{{cite book|author1=Anna Gallina Zevi|author2=Rita Turchetti|title=Méditerranée occidentale antique: les échanges. Atti del seminario (Marsiglia, 14-15 maggio 2004). Ediz. francese, italiana e spagnola|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hMV2s_sAICMC&pg=PA224|year=2004|publisher=Rubbettino Editore|isbn=978-88-498-1116-2|page=224}} later the site of a Roman colony, Sala Colonia, across the river on the south side of the Bou Regreg estuary.{{cite book|author=Kenneth L. Brown|title=People of Salé: Tradition and Change in a Moroccan City, 1830-1930|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QGK7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1|date=1 January 1976|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-0623-4|page=1}} The local Banu Ifran apparently cultivated the legend that the city's name was derived from that of Salah, son of Ham, son of Noah.{{cite book|author1=Jāmiʻat Muḥammad al-Khāmis. Kullīyat al-Ādāb wa-al-ʻUlūm al-Insānīyah|author2=Kullīyat al-Ādāb wa-al-ʻUlūm al-Insānīyah|title=Hespéris tamuda|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mu0PAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Sal%C3%A9%22%20%22Ham%22%20%22Noah%22|volume=10–13|year=1969|publisher=Editions techniques nord-africaines|page=92}}

File:Salé mosque DSCF6797.jpg, located within the historic medina]]

The Arab historians al-Bakri and Ibn Hawqal mention the existence of a town along the Bou Regreg at an early era, but they may have been referring to Chellah (former Sala Colonia) rather than the present town of Salé. The town of Salé proper was probably founded in the 11th century by families from al-Andalus (present-day Spain and Portugal), most importantly the Banu 'Ashara.{{Cite book |last=Mouline |first=Saïd |title=The City in the Islamic World |publisher=Brill |year=2008 |isbn=9789004171688 |volume=1 |pages=643–662 |chapter=Rabat. Salé – Holy Cities of the Two Banks |chapter-url=https://brill.com/display/book/edcoll/9789047442653/Bej.9789004162402.i-1500_028.xml}} The latter family included learned jurists (faqihs) and judges (qadis) and they became the city's de facto rulers.{{Cite book |last=Bennison |first=Amira K. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=19JVDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA77 |title=Almoravid and Almohad Empires |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |year=2016 |isbn=978-0-7486-4682-1 |pages=77 |language=en}}

The Banu 'Ashara reportedly hosted Ibn Tumart, the founder of the Almohad movement, in their palace in 1121, while he was on his way to Marrakesh. They resisted the Almohad invasion under Ibn Tumart's successor, 'Abd al-Mu'min ({{Reign|1130|1163}}). As a result, the latter destroyed the city walls, eliminated the Banu 'Ashara and seized their palace. When Abd al-Mu'min summoned the rulers of al-Andalus to pledge allegiance to him in 1151, he received them in this palace.

Later in the 12th century, when the Almohad caliph Yaqub al-Mansur ({{Reign|1184|1199}}) founded Ribat al-Fath (present-day Rabat) across the river, Salé seems to have remained important and was used as a residence by the Almohad caliphs, who also made various improvements to the city.{{Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition|volume=8|pages=898–899|first=Halima|last=Ferhat|article=Salā}} The current Great Mosque of Salé was built on the order of Yaqub al-Mansur in 1196, over the site of city's former main mosque whose roof had collapsed.{{cite book |author=Janet L. Abu-Lughod |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NKP_AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA57 |title=Rabat: Urban Apartheid in Morocco |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-4008-5303-8 |pages=57 |language=en}} (Its present-day form, however, is the result of 18th-century renovations.) Al-Mansur is also reported to have created the first bridge linking the city with Rabat across the river.

File:Sale,BabMrisa.jpg, dating to the 1270s during the early Marinid period of the city]]

In September 1260, Salé was raided and occupied by warriors sent in a fleet of ships by King Alfonso X of Castile.{{cite book|first=Charles-Emmanuel|last=Dufourcq|author-link = Charles-Emmanuel Dufourcq|title=Un projet castillan du XIIIe siècle : la croisade d'Afrique|publisher=Faculty of Arts|year=1966|page=28|language=fr}}{{cite book|author=Joseph F. O'Callaghan|title=A History of Medieval Spain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yA3p6v3UxyIC&pg=PA364|date=31 August 1983|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=0-8014-9264-5|page=364}} The Marinid sultan Abu Yusuf Yaqub ibn Abd Al-Haqq ({{Reign|1258|1286}}) reconquered the town and afterwards helped to rebuild the city walls. The historic gate of Bab el-Mrisa was constructed at this time and remains a landmark of the city.[http://www.elmghriby.me/2017/03/bab.elmrissa.html?m=0 أنا باب المريسة وهذه حكايتي]. El Mghriby. Retrieved January 27, 2018.

During the Marinid period, the city's fortifications continued to be upgraded and a new protected harbour was built. The harbour, located on the south side of the city, was linked to the river by two channels, with Bab el-Mrisa and another monumental gate serving as water gates through which boats passed. The Marinids added new religious and charitable constructions, including the Madrasa of Abu al-Hasan, the Zawiya al-Nussak, and a maristan (hospital for the mentally ill).

In the 14th century, Ibn 'Ashir (d. 1362 or 1363), a Sufi mystic from al-Andalus, moved to Salé and attracted other Sufis to him, including Ibn Abbad al-Rundi.{{Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition|volume=3|pages=719–720|first=A.|last=Faure|article=Ibn ʿĀs̲h̲ir}} Ibn Ashir later became the patron saint of the city and his mausoleum dominates the large seaside cemetery of the medina.

{{main|Republic of Salé}}

In the 17th century, Salé became a haven for Barbary pirates, among them the Moriscos expelled from Spain turned corsairs, who formed an independent Republic of Salé.{{cite book|author=Alan G. Jamieson|author-link=Alan G. Jamieson|title=Lords of the Sea: A History of the Barbary Corsairs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7DlMqY9OQXAC&pg=PA106|date=15 February 2013|publisher=Reaktion Books|isbn=978-1-86189-946-0|page=106}} Salé pirates (the well-known "Salé Rovers"){{cite book|author=Adrian Tinniswood|title=Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IBSVMivndEQC&pg=PT133|date=11 November 2010|publisher=Penguin Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-101-44531-0|page=133}} enslaved civilians from European coasts; capturing, for, example, 1,000 English villagers in 1625, selling them later in Africa.{{cite book |author1=Giles Milton |author1-link=Giles Milton |title=White Gold • The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves |date=2005 |publisher=Isis Publishing Ltd |location=Oxford |isbn=0-7531-5647-4 |language=en |chapter=A New and Deadly Foe |quote=summer of 1625, the mayor of Plymouth reckoned that 1,000 skiffs had been destroyed, and a similar number of villagers carried off into slavery. These miserable captives were taken to Salé |edition=Large Print |page=14 |orig-date=2004 }} They sold their crews and sometimes passengers into slavery in the Arabic world.{{cite book|author1=D'Maris Coffman|author2=Adrian Leonard|author3=William O'Reilly|title=The Atlantic World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=80y2BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA178|date=5 December 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-57605-1|page=178}} Despite the legendary reputation of the Salé corsairs, their ships were based across the river in Rabat, called "New Salé" by the English.{{cite book|author=Roger Coindreau|title=Les corsaires de Salé|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TaaSQECw4IcC&pg=PA45|year=2006|publisher=Eddif|isbn=978-9981-896-76-5|pages=45–46}}{{cite book|author=Alan G. Jamieson|author-link=Alan G. Jamieson|title=Lords of the Sea: A History of the Barbary Corsairs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7DlMqY9OQXAC&pg=PA104|date=15 February 2013|publisher=Reaktion Books|isbn=978-1-86189-946-0|page=104}}

European powers took action to try to eliminate the threat from the Barbary Coast. On May 1628, the city of Salé was bombarded by Spain{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YuxMAAAAMAAJ |first=Cesáreo Fernández |last=Duro |title= Armada española desde la unión de los reinos de Castilla y de León|date= 1898|publisher= Est. tipográfico "Sucesores de Rivadeneyra,"|language=es |page=87–88 }} and, in 20 July 1629, it bombarded by French Admiral Isaac de Razilly with a fleet composed of the ships Licorne, Saint-Louis, Griffon, Catherine, Hambourg, Sainte-Anne, Saint-Jean; his forces destroyed three corsair ships.Coindreau 2006. p. 192Jamieson 2013, p. 109

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During the decades preceding the independence of Morocco, Salé was the stronghold of some "national movement" activists. The reading of the "Latif" (a politically charged prayer to God, read in mosques in loud unison) was launched in Salé and became popular in some cities of Morocco.

A petition against the so-called "Berber Dahir" (a decree that allowed some Berber-speaking areas of Morocco to continue using Berber Law, as opposed to Sharia Law) was given to Sultan Mohamed V and the Resident General of France. The petition and the "Latif" prayer led to the withdrawal and adjustment of the so-called "Berber Decree" of May 1930. The activists who opposed the "Berber Decree" apparently feared that the explicit recognition of the Berber Customary Law (a very secular-minded Berber tradition) would threaten the position of Islam and its Sharia law system. Others believed that opposing the French-engineered "Berber Decree" was a means to turn the table against the French occupation of Morocco.

The widespread storm that was created by the "Berber Dahir" controversy created a somewhat popular Moroccan nationalist elite based in Salé and Fez; it had strong anti-Berber, anti-West, anti-secular, and pro Arab-Islamic inclinations. This period helped develop the political awareness and activism that would lead fourteen years later to the signing of the Manifest of Independence of Morocco on 11 January 1944 by many "Slawi" activists and leaders. Salé has been deemed to have been the stronghold of the Moroccan left for many decades, where many leaders have resided.

Salé, like many other Moroccan cities, had its own mellah, where the Jewish community resided. Raphael Encaoua, a famous rabbi born in Salé is buried in the Jewish cemetery nearby.{{cite web |title=Salé |url=https://moroccanjews.org/home/sites-of-jewish-interest/coastal-cities-and-towns/sale-2/ |website=Visiting Jewish Morocco |access-date=18 June 2024}}

The prefecture is divided administratively into the following:[http://www.hcp.ma/file/167575/ 2014 Morocco Population Census]{{in lang|ar}}

Salé has a Mediterranean climate (Csa) with warm to hot dry summers and mild damp winters. Located along the Atlantic Ocean, Salé has a mild, temperate climate, shifting from cool in winter to warm days in the summer months. The nights are always cool (or cold in winter, it can reach Sub {{convert|0|°C|0|abbr=on}} sometimes), with daytime temperatures generally rising about {{convert|7|to|8|C}}. The winter highs typically reach only {{convert|17.2|°C|1|abbr=on}} in December–February. Summer daytime highs usually hover around {{convert|25|°C|1|abbr=on}}, but may occasionally exceed {{convert|30|°C|1|abbr=on}}, especially during heat waves. Summer nights are usually pleasant and cool, ranging between {{convert|11|°C|1|abbr=on}} and {{convert|19|°C|1|abbr=on}} and rarely exceeding {{convert|20|°C|1|abbr=on}}. Rabat belongs to the sub-humid bioclimatic zone with an average annual precipitation of 560 mm.

Salé's climate resembles that of the southwest coast of the Iberian Peninsula and the coast of Southern California.

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| publisher = Deutscher Wetterdienst

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| access-date = October 14, 2016}} Meteo Climat (record highs and lows)

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The historic old city (medina) of Salé occupies a large area near the mouth of the Bou Regreg river. It is enclosed by defensive walls pierced with several entrances, the most notable of which is Bab el-Mrisa ('Gate of the Little Port'), a monumental gate on the southeast side of the city, dating to the 1270s.{{Cite book |last=Parker |first=Richard |url=https://archive.org/details/practicalguideto0000rich_l1s6 |title=A practical guide to Islamic Monuments in Morocco |publisher=The Baraka Press |year=1981 |isbn= |location=Charlottesville, VA |pages=93–101 |language=en}}

File:Marinid Madrasa of Salé (87761966).jpg, a 14th-century madrasa located next to the Great Mosque]]

The religious center of the city is the Great Mosque, located in the western half of the medina. Next to the mosque is the Madrasa of Abu al-Hasan, a madrasa building dating to 1342, which is one of the architectural highlights of the city.{{cite book |author=Janet L. Abu-Lughod |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NKP_AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA57 |title=Rabat: Urban Apartheid in Morocco |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-4008-5303-8 |pages=59 |language=en}} A number of tombs and zawiyas are also located in the area near the Great Mosque and in the large seaside cemetery occupying the southwestern corner of the medina. The mausoleum complex of Sidi Abdallah ibn Hassun, one of the two patron saints of the city, is located just west of the mosque. The other patron saint of the city, Ibn Athir, is buried in a prominent mausoleum further west, near the shore.

One of the other historic landmarks of the city is the Funduq Askour, the former maristan (hospital). It was originally built by the Marinid sultan Abu Inan towards 1350. All that remains of the original building today is a highly decorated entrance portal.

A short distance east of the city walls is the Zawiya al-Nussak, originally built in 1356 by Abu Inan, most likely as a lodge for Sufis.{{Cite book |last=Marçais |first=Georges |title=L'architecture musulmane d'Occident |publisher=Arts et métiers graphiques |year=1954 |location=Paris |pages=284}} By the 20th century it had fallen into ruin but it has recently been restored. Its most significant and well-preserved feature is a stone-carved entrance portal.{{Cite book |last=Salmon |first=Xavier |title=Fès mérinide: Une capitale pour les arts, 1276-1465 |publisher=Lienart |year=2021 |isbn=9782359063356 |pages=250–252 |language=fr}}

Another landmark outside the city walls is the 14th-century aqueduct built by the Marinid sultan Abu al-Hasan to improve the city's water supply. A preserved section roughly {{Convert|2.5|km|mi}} long can be found to the north of the medina, at one point straddling the modern road that leads north to Kenitra.

In 1958 , the king hassan 2 founded AS FAR and was the first club presenting the city along side with the capitale RABAT , they called (العاصمة الكبرى).

The club has many trophies and was the first club in morocco to win the champions league of africa .

In SALÉ there is a big fanbase of this club and also in the whole country.

File:Rabat-Salé airport.jpg]]

Salé's main airport is Rabat–Salé Airport, which is located in Salé but also serves Rabat, the capital city of Morocco.

Salé is served by two principal railway stations run by the national rail service, the ONCF. These stations are Salé-Tabriquet and Salé-Ville.

Salé-Ville is the main inter-city station, from which trains run south to Rabat, Casablanca, Marrakech and El Jadida, north to Tanger, or east to Meknes, Fes, Taza and Oujda.

File:Tramway de Salé.jpg]]

The Rabat–Salé tramway was the first tramway network in Morocco and it connects Salé with Rabat across the river. It was opened on 11 May 2011 after a construction cost of 3.6 billion MAD.{{Cite web |last=L'Opinion |title=Tramway / Rabat-Salé : 7,8 MDH pour la 3ème phase de développement |url=https://www.lopinion.ma/Tramway-Rabat-Sale-78-MDH-pour-la-3eme-phase-de-developpement_a29624.html |access-date=2023-09-07 |website=L'Opinion Maroc |language=fr}} The network was constructed by Alstom Citadis and is operated by Transdev.{{Cite web |title=Morocco: Inauguration of tramway line between Rabat and Salé |url=https://www.icafrica.org/en/news-events/infrastructure-news/article/morocco-inauguration-of-tramway-line-between-rabat-and-sale-1965/ |access-date=2023-09-07 |website=ICA |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Qui sommes-nous ? |url=https://www.tram-way.ma/fr/qui-sommes-nous/ |access-date=2023-09-07 |website=Tramway Rabat Salé |language=fr-FR}} As of February 2022, the network had two lines with a total length of {{convert|26.9|km|0|abbr=in}} and 43 stations.{{Cite web |title=MISE EN SERVICE COMMERCIALE DE L'EXTENSION DE LA LIGNE 2 DU RESEAU DU TRAMWAY DE RABAT SALE LE MERCREDI 16 FERVIER 2022 |url=https://www.tram-way.ma/fr/mise-en-service-commerciale-de-lextension-de-la-ligne-2-du-reseau-du-tramway-de-rabat-sale-le-mercredi-16-fervier-2022/ |access-date=2023-09-07 |website=Tramway Rabat Salé |language=fr-FR}} In 2023, an extension of the network was being planned and is due to be completed by 2028.{{Cite web |last=El Masaiti |first=Amira |date=2023-07-20 |title=Rabat Tramway network extends in the directions of Temara and Sale |url=https://en.hespress.com/67795-rabat-tramway-network-extends-for-kilometers-in-the-directions-of-temara-and-sale.html |access-date=2023-09-07 |website=HESPRESS English - Morocco News |language=en-US}}

Water supply and wastewater collection in Salé was {{when|date=June 2014}} irregular, with poorer and illegal housing units suffering the highest costs and most acute scarcities.Guillaume Benoit and Aline Comeau, A Sustainable Future for the Mediterranean (2005) 640 pages Much of the city used to rely upon communal standpipes, which were often shut down, depriving some neighbourhoods of safe drinking water for indefinite periods of time. Nevertheless, Salé fared better than inland Moroccan locations, where water scarcity was even more acute. Improvements from the government, local businesses and the water distribution companies of Régie de distribution d'Eau & d'Électricité de Rabat-Salé (REDAL) {{As of|2010|lc=y}} have meant that this situation has improved drastically.{{cite book|author=Richard N. Palmer|title=World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2010: Challenges of Change|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hPskluvG7OQC&pg=PA826|year=2010|publisher=ASCE Publications|isbn=978-0-7844-7352-8|page=826}}

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The film Black Hawk Down was partially filmed in Salé, in particular the wide angle aerial shots with helicopters flying down the coastline.

The character Robinson Crusoe, in the early part of Daniel Defoe's novel by the same name, spends time in captivity of the local pirates, the Salé Rovers, and at last sails off to liberty from the mouth of the Salé river - an adventure less well remembered than the protagonist's later sojourn on the desert island.

• Abdellah Taïa, writer
• Abdelwahed Radi, politician
• Abu Zakariya Yahya al-Wattasi, governor of Salé for the Marinids
• Ahmad ibn Khalid al-Nasiri, historian
• Ahmed al-Salawi, writer
• Amina Benkhadra, politician
• Amine Laâlou, athlete
• Chaim ibn Attar, world renowned biblical commentator, talmudist, and posek known for his work "Or HaChayim" on the Pentateuch
• Gnawi, rapper
• Hajj Ali Zniber, writer
• Hayat Lambarki, athlete
• Houcine Slaoui, musician
• Larbi Naji, footballer
• El Mehdi Malki, judoka
• Merouane Zemmama, footballer
• Mohamed Amine Sbihi, politician
• Mohammed Zniber, writer and historian
• Nores (musician), Rapper
• Rajaâ Cherkaoui El Moursli, Professor of Nuclear Physics
• Raphael Ankawa, Chief Rabbi of Morocco and a noted commentator, talmudist, posek, and author
• Reda Rhalimi, basketball player
• Saad Hassar, politician
• Tarik Khbabez, kickboxer
• L'Morphine, rapper and songwriter

{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Morocco}}

Salé is twinned with:{{cite web |title=Partenariats|url=https://fr.villedesale.ma/commune-de-sale/travaux-du-conseil/partenariats-et-accrods/|website=villedesale.ma|publisher=Salé|language=fr|access-date=2020-12-02}}

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• {{flagicon|TUN}} Aryanah, Tunisia
• {{flagicon|PSE}} Beitunia, Palestine
• {{flagicon|SEN}} Gandiaye, Senegal
• {{flagicon|SEN}} Grand Yoff, Senegal
• {{flagicon|CMR}} Maroua, Cameroon
• {{flagicon|POR}} Portalegre, Portugal

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Salé also cooperates with:

• {{flagicon|USA}} Alexandria, United States
• {{flagicon|RUS}} Sochi, Russia
• {{flagicon|MEX}} Tlaxcala, Mexico

• Bouknadel
• Le Bouregreg

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• [http://lexicorient.com/morocco/sale.htm Salé entry in LexicOrient]
• [http://www.selwane.com Le portail de la ville de Salé]
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Category:Prefectural capitals in Morocco