El Gour, Morocco

El Gour
	الكور (in Arabic)
	Shown within Morocco
Location	El Hajeb Province, Fès-Meknès, Morocco
Coordinates	33°51′01″N 05°18′32″W
Type	Settlement
History
Founded	4th century BC
Cultures	Berbers, Phoenician, Carthaginian
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Type	Cultural
Designated	1996
Reference no.	458
Region	Arab States

El Gour, or Bazina du Gour, is an ancient archeological site located in the Fès-Meknès region of northern Morocco. Estimates date the site at being constructed some time between the 4th and 2nd centuries BCE.[1][2]

Location

The village (douar) Souk Jemaa El Gour is located south of the A2 motorway about 30 km east of Meknès in an agricultural hilly landscape at the intersection of the roads P7050 and P7067. The structure called El Gour is located above a river valley, about 500 m northeast of the water tower of the village.

Site description

The site of El Gour is a type of bazina, or burial mound, typically constructed solely for people of the utmost importance.[1]

World Heritage status

This site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List on July 1, 1995 in the Cultural category.[1]

References

"El Gour". UNESCO. n.d. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
Stillwell, Richard; MacDonald, William; Holland McAllister, Marian (n.d.). "EL GOUR (Souk el Jemaa el Gour) Morocco". The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Retrieved 28 May 2014.

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[unesco-1] "El Gour". UNESCO. n.d. Retrieved 28 May 2014.

[The_Princeton_Encyclopedia_of_Classical_Sites-2] Stillwell, Richard; MacDonald, William; Holland McAllister, Marian (n.d.). "EL GOUR (Souk el Jemaa el Gour) Morocco". The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Retrieved 28 May 2014.