Temara ( ar, تمارة; ber, ⵜⵎⴰⵔⴰ) is a coastal city in

Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the westernmost country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to A ...

.Temara
Location information. It is located in the region of Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, directly south of

Rabat Rabat (, also , ; ar, الرِّبَاط, er-Ribât; ber, ⵕⵕⴱⴰⵟ, ṛṛbaṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan populatio ...

on the Atlantic coast, in the suburban area of the capital. The city has 313,510 inhabitants as of 2014 and is the capital of Skhirate-Témara Prefecture. It is twinned with

Saint Germain en Laye Saint-Germain-en-Laye () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris, from the centre of Paris. Inhabitants are called ''Saint-Germanois'' or ''Saint-Ge ...

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. The city has beaches and a small pleasure port.

History

Temara was founded in the twelfth century (1130–1163) by Sultan Othman El Arfaoui, who built a mosque there and named it Al Maha. Five centuries later,

Mulai Ismail Moulay Ismail Ibn Sharif ( ar, مولاي إسماعيل بن الشريف), born around 1645 in Sijilmassa and died on 22 March 1727 at Meknes, was a Sultan of Morocco from 1672–1727, as the second ruler of the Alaouite dynasty. He was the sev ...

built the current wall and made from Temara a

ribat A ribāṭ ( ar, رِبَـاط; hospice, hostel, base or retreat) is an Arabic term for a small fortification built along a frontier during the first years of the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb to house military volunteers, called ''murabitun'' ...

(casern) around Said mosque. Later, Mulay Abd ar-Rahman (1822–1859) and Mulay

Abdul Aziz Abdul Aziz or Abdul-Aziz may refer to: * Abd al-Aziz, a male Arabic theophoric name, commonly abbreviated as Aziz People * Sultan Abdulaziz (1830–1876), sultan of the Ottoman Empire * King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud (1876–1953), founder of Saudi ...

(1894–1908), completed ( Kasbah of the Udayas) as religious and military camps.

Climate

Temara has a

hot-summer Mediterranean climate A Mediterranean climate (also called a dry summer temperate climate ''Cs'') is a temperate climate sub-type, generally characterized by warm, dry summers and mild, fairly wet winters; these weather conditions are typically experienced in the ...

(

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''Csa''). In winter there is more rainfall than in summer. The average annual temperature in Temara is . About of precipitation falls annually.

Economy

Temara is close to Morocco's two main cities,

, the capital, and economic center

Casablanca Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's econom ...

. Two main zones share the essence of the industrial units in the city of Temara. The first is in the direction of

, and, with a total area of 120 hectares, extensible to 300 Ha work 55 industrial units in this zone, contains the more clean industry sectors (textiles, packaging, printing, food). The second industrial zone is at the other end of town, in the direction of Rabat. It is the industrial zone Attasnia, which, with a total of 20 hectares, contains 23 industrial units (such as textiles, electronics, chemicals).

People

The population was at first constituted by Zaer tribes and different tribes of Oudayas (Military groups from different regions of Morocco were established by the Sultan, as exchange of their Military service to the Sultan they had the right to cultivate the land). Now the population was diversified by all ethnicities in Morocco:

Arabs The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in Western Asia, ...

and various

Amazigh , image = File:Berber_flag.svg , caption = The Berber ethnic flag , population = 36 million , region1 = Morocco , pop1 = 14 million to 18 million , region2 = Algeria , pop2 ...

groups ( Riffians, Chleuhs and Hassanis).

Notable people

* Mourad Hdiouad - Moroccan football manager

References

External links

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Temara City
{{Authority control Populated places in Rabat-Salé-Kénitra Skhirate-Témara Prefecture Municipalities of Morocco Prefecturial capitals in Morocco