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Ouarzazate ( Warzazat ), nicknamed " The door of the desert ", is a city and capital of Ouarzazate Province in Drâa - Tafilalet region of south - central ___MASK57___ . Ouarzazate is at an elevation of in the middle of a bare plateau south of the High Atlas Mountains . To the south of the town is the desert . The ___MASK88___ is the second largest of the world ' s oceans with a total area of about . It covers approximately 20 percent of the Earth ' s surface and about 29 percent of its water surface area . It separates the " Old World " from the " New World ". Taroudannt ( Tamazight :  , Arabic :   ) is a Moroccan city located in the Sous Valley in the southern part of the country . It is situated east of Agadir on the road to Ouarzazate and the Sahara desert and south of Marrakech . It is called the `` Grandmother of Marrakech '' because it looks like a smaller Marrakech with its surrounding ramparts . In the sixteenth century the Saadians briefly used Taroudannt as a capital , before they moved onwards to Marrakech . Today it has the feel of a small fortified market town on a caravan route . The city is known for its local crafts , including jewellery and carpets . Unlike Marrakech , almost the entire city of Taroudannt is located inside its walls . A new part of the city is being developed outside the city walls around the campus of a faculty of the Ibn Zohr University of Agadir . A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city . The size definition for what constitutes a " town " varies considerably in different parts of the ___MASK58___ . Ouarzazate Province is a province in the administrative region of Drâa - Tafilalet , ___MASK57___ . Its population in 2004 was 499 , 980 . High Atlas , also called the " Grand Atlas Mountains " is a mountain range in central ___MASK57___ in Northern Africa . Europe is a continent that comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia . Europe is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north , the ___MASK88___ to the west , and the Mediterranean Sea to the south . To the east and southeast , Europe is generally considered as separated from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains , the Ural River , the Caspian and Black Seas , and the waterways of the Turkish Straits . Yet the non - oceanic borders of Europe  a concept dating back to classical antiquity  are arbitrary . The primarily physiographic term " continent " as applied to Europe also incorporates cultural and political elements whose discontinuities are not always reflected by the continent ' s current overland boundaries . In the history of Europe , the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted from the 5th to the 15th century . It began with the fall of the ___MASK33___ and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery . The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history : classical antiquity , the medieval period , and the modern period . The medieval period is itself subdivided into the Early , High , and Late Middle Ages . ___MASK57___ (', lit . " The West "; '), officially known as the Kingdom of ___MASK57___ (', lit . " The Western Kingdom "; '), is a sovereign country located in the Maghreb region of North Africa . Geographically , ___MASK57___ is characterized by a rugged mountainous interior , large tracts of desert , and a lengthy coastline along the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea . ___MASK97___ ( local informal name : " Kaa ") is the largest city in ___MASK57___ , located in the central - western part of the country bordering the Atlantic Ocean . It is the largest city in the Maghreb , as well as one of the largest and most important cities in Africa , both economically and demographically . The Atlas Mountains (" Daran Dyrin " " Idurar n Walas ") are mountain range in the Maghreb . It stretches around through ___MASK51___ , ___MASK57___ and Tunisia . The range ' s highest peak is Jebel Toubkal , with an elevation of in southwestern ___MASK57___ . It separates the Mediterranean and Atlantic coastlines from the Sahara Desert . The Atlas mountains are primarily inhabited by Berber populations . The terms for ' mountain ' in some Berber languages are " adrar " and " adras ", which are believed to be cognates of the toponym " Atlas ". Market town or market right is a legal term , originating in the Middle Ages , for a European settlement that has the right to host markets , distinguishing it from a village and city . A town may be correctly described as a " market town " or as having " market rights ", even if it no longer holds a market , provided the legal right to do so still exists . Agadir ( Berber : Agadir ; Moroccan Arabic : ) is a major city in ___MASK57___ , located on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean near the foot of the Atlas Mountains , just north of the point where the Sous River flows into the ocean . It is at a distance of 508 km to the south of Casablanca . It is the capital of the Agadir - Ida Ou Tanane Prefecture and of the Souss - Massa economic region . A majority of its inhabitants speak Shilha / Tashelhit , a Berber language of the Atlas branch , as their first language .