query: country taroudant
supports: The Atlas Mountains ("Daran Dyrin" "Idurar n Walas") are mountain range in the Maghreb. It stretches around through Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. The range's highest peak is Jebel Toubkal, with an elevation of in southwestern Morocco. 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". The Atlantic Ocean 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 . Ouarzazate Province is a province in the administrative region of Drâa-Tafilalet, Morocco. Its population in 2004 was 499,980.  High Atlas, also called the "Grand Atlas Mountains"  is a mountain range in central Morocco in Northern Africa. Casablanca (local informal name: "Kaa") is the largest city in Morocco, 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. 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 world. Europe is a continent that comprises the westernmost part of Eurasia. Europe is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean 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 Europea concept dating back to classical antiquityare 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. Ouarzazate (Warzazat), nicknamed "The door of the desert", is a city and capital of Ouarzazate Province in Drâa-Tafilalet region of south-central Morocco. 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. Agadir (Berber: Agadir; Moroccan Arabic: ) is a major city in Morocco, 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. 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. Morocco (', lit. "The West"; '), officially known as the Kingdom of Morocco (', lit. "The Western Kingdom"; '), is a sovereign country located in the Maghreb region of North Africa. Geographically, Morocco is characterized by a rugged mountainous interior, large tracts of desert, and a lengthy coastline along the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. 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 Western Roman Empire 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.
candidates: algeria atlantic ocean casablanca morocco roman empire western roman empire world
answer: morocco