The Phoenicians were the first to settle on the grassy slopes above the river, but the town grew when the Romans took control in about AD 40. the city was abandoned in 1154 in favor of Sale, but in the 14th century the Merenid sultan Abou al-Hassan Ali built a necropolis on top of the Roman site and surrounded it with the towers and defensive wall that stand today.
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