This family coming from Tafilalt appeared at the end of the Saadian Dynasty and is the last one in Morocco. Just like their predecessors, they claim their belonging to the prophet's family. When they conquered Marrakech, Moulay Rachid (the first Alaoui King) settled his capital in Fès instead of Marrakesh…which means the declineof the Ochre City. His brother Moulay Ismail succeeded to him when he was only 26 years old. During his reign, Meknès became the capital of the country because he hated the preceding dynasties prestige and demolished some of their buildings like the Badia Palace. He died in 1727, after a long severe reign. His succession was subject to a lot of difficulties that divided the South of Morocco. Finally it was one of his grandson Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdallah who succeeded to him in 1757. One of his particularity is that he had no fixed capital. He signed different commercial treaties with France and Holland and create the old Mogador (Essaouira nowadays) so as to make easier business with European countries, and he restored different royal palaces. Unfortunately under Moulay Yazid and Moulay Slimane, the country knew many epidemics and rebellions which isolated the Moroccan kingdom. The colonial interest of France, England and Spain became emergent, and, after the defeat of Emir Abdel Kadir against France in 1844, the country was obliged to give them consular and commercial privileges which deprived them of customs and business incomes. That ruined the Craft Industry and later on, the king Hassan I tried to make profit from the divergences and the European rivalries but the Madrid conference of 1880 authorised all European countries to intervene in Morocco which decreased the central authority while remaining intact the dynasty.