Tifelt ( Berber: Tifelt, ⵜⵉⴼⴻⵍⵜ, erroneously rendered as ''Tiflet'' in French; Arabic: تيفلت) is a town in northwestern

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 t ...

, west of

Khemisset Khemisset (Amazigh language: Zemmur, ar, الخميسات) is an Amazigh town in northern Morocco with a population of 131,542 recorded in the 2014 Moroccan census. It is situated on the A2 motorway between Rabat (81 km) and Meknès (57 ...

and east of Rabat. Tifelt is in a region of Morocco that is rich with ancient history including settlement by Berbers,

Phoenicia Phoenicia () was an ancient thalassocratic civilization originating in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon. The territory of the Phoenician city-states extended and shrank throughout their histor ...

ns and

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during the first millennium BC. The nearest such major settlements are in Rabat and

Volubilis Volubilis (; ar, وليلي, walīlī; ber, ⵡⵍⵉⵍⵉ, wlili) is a partly excavated Berber-Roman city in Morocco situated near the city of Meknes, and may have been the capital of the kingdom of Mauretania, at least from the time of Kin ...

. Tifelt is between the cities of Rabat and

Tifelt is a town that was served by workers of the

United States Peace Corps The Peace Corps is an independent agency and program of the United States government that trains and deploys volunteers to provide international development assistance. It was established in March 1961 by an executive order of President John F. ...

until the attack on America of

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.New York Times, retrieved February 15, 2008
/ref> The Peace Corps workers had been assisting local women in a beekeeping

cooperative A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-contro ...

, until the U.S. government evacuated the Peace Corps personnel for concerns over their safety. Peace Corps workers have since returned and now focus primarily on job skills workshops and English language classes.Tiflet
/span>. Location information.

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Populated places in Khémisset Province {{RabatSaléKénitra-geo-stub

See also

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