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Essaouira, Morocco: harbour fortifications with the Essaouira city in the background. Harbour fortifications were built by an English renegade named Ahmed El Alj, Ahmed the Renegade, in 1770. Essaouira is a city in the western Moroccan economic region of Marrakesh-Tensift-Al Haouz, on the Atlantic coast. Since the 16th century, the city has also been known by its Portuguese name of Mogador or Mogadore. The Berber name means the wall, a reference to the fortress walls that originally enclosed the city.