Tifelt (
Berber
Berber or Berbers may refer to:
Ethnic group
* Berbers, an ethnic group native to Northern Africa
* Berber languages, a family of Afro-Asiatic languages
Places
* Berber, Sudan, a town on the Nile
People with the surname
* Ady Berber (1913–196 ...
: Tifelt, ⵜⵉⴼⴻⵍⵜ, erroneously rendered as ''Tiflet'' in French; Arabic: تيفلت) is a town in northwestern
Morocco, west of
Khemisset and east 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 populati ...
. Tifelt is in a region of Morocco that is rich with ancient history including settlement by Berbers,
Phoenicians and
Romans during the first millennium
BC. The nearest such major settlements are in
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 populati ...
and
Volubilis. Tifelt is between the cities 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 populati ...
and
Khemisset
Tifelt is a town that was served by workers of the
United States Peace Corps until the attack on America of
September 11, 2001.
[New York Times, retrieved February 15, 2008](_blank)
/ref> The Peace Corps workers had been assisting local women in a beekeeping
Beekeeping (or apiculture) is the maintenance of bee colonies, commonly in man-made beehives. Honey bees in the genus '' Apis'' are the most-commonly-kept species but other honey-producing bees such as ''Melipona'' stingless bees are also kept. ...
cooperative, 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.
See also
* Rabat-Fes expressway
* Volubilis
References
Populated places in Khémisset Province
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