Fishing Boats And Nets In Agadir Editorial Photo

Founded around 1104 BC as Gadir or Agadir by Phoenicians from Tyre[8][9] Little history is recorded on Agadir before the 12th century.The oldest cartographic mention of Agadir is on a map from 1325: at the approximate location of the modern city there was an indication of a place called Porto Mesegina, after the name of a Berber tribe already mentioned in the 12th century, the Mesguina, that is to say the Ksima.At the end of the medieval period, Agadir was a town of some notoriety. The name itself, Agadir al-harba, was attested to for the first time in 1510.[10]In 1505, the Portuguese, who were already installed on the Moroccan coast, founded a trading post and a fort at the foot of the hill to the sea, Santa Cruz do Cabo de Aguer on the site of the now-vanished neighborhood of Founti named after the Portuguese word fonte meaning fountain under a governor.