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'''Nekor''' ({{Langx|ar|نقور}}) is a historic site in the [[Rif]] region of [[Morocco]] near modern-day [[Bni Bouayach]].  It was founded by [[Salih I ibn Mansur|Idris ibn Salih]], Emir of the medieval [[Kingdom of Nekor]], between 749 and 761 AD. His son [[Sa'id I ibn Idris]] moved the capital to Nekor from [[Temsamane|Temsaman]]. At its height, it was described as the greatest center of [[Berber culture]] in the region of Rif.<ref name="has">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s4cqAAAAMAAJ&q=arabic+culture|title=Harvard African Studies|date=1931|publisher=African Department, Peabody Museum of Harvard University|pages=34|language=en}}</ref>

In 859, a major long-distance Viking expedition, under the command of two famed Vikings, [[Björn Ironside]] and [[Hásteinn]], set out for Spain from their base on the Loire with the objective of sacking the city of Rome. They tried to land at Galicia and were driven off. Then they sailed down the west coast of the peninsula and burned the mosque at Seville, but were repelled by a large Muslim force there before entering the Mediterranean through the Straits of Gibraltar and burning the mosque at Algeciras, following which they headed south to Nekor on the coast of Morocco, plundered the city and defeated a Muslim force that attempted to stop them.<ref name="Price2008">{{cite book |last1=Price |first1=Neil |editor1-last=Brink |editor1-first=Stefan |editor2-last=Price |editor2-first=Neil |title=The Viking World |year=2008 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-31826-1 |pages=465–466 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wuN-AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA465 |chapter=Spain, North Africa and the Mediterranean}}</ref><ref name="Logan2013">{{cite book |last1=Logan |first1=F. Donald |title=The Vikings in History |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-52716-6 |page=110 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_TD-AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA110}}</ref>

The city was destroyed by the [[Almoravid]] [[Yusuf ibn Tashfin]] in 1080 during his conquest of the Rif.<ref name="has" />

The site has been partially submerged by the reservoir of the Abdelkrim Khattabi dam.<ref>[http://www.lopinion.ma/def.asp?codelangue=23&id_info=44810 Al-Hoceima entre hier et aujourd’hui : Des trésors ensevelis]</ref>

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[[Category:Archaeological sites in Morocco]]
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