About Morocco

[Berkani]

Originally Posted by Redalinho

he Jewish Population of Morocco in 1931

More than 50%
- Mogador (Essaouira)
- Sefrou

30 - 50%
- Ber Rechid
- Beu-Denib
- Demnat
- Midelt
- Outat-el-Haj
- Rich
- Taourirt


15 - 30%
- Tangier
- Mazagan (El Jadida)
- Azrou
- Beni-Mellal
- Amizmiz
- Berquent
- Bou-Anane
- El-Aïoun
- Kasba-ben-Ahmed
- Souk-el-Arba-du-Gharb

10 - 15%
- Casablanca
- Marrakech
- Meknès
- Safi
- Berkane
- Debdou
- Enjil
- Gourrama
- Imintahout
- Ksabi
- Missour
- Tamanar


7 - 10%
- Agadir
- Fèz
- Rabat
- Salé
- Settat
- Taroudant
- Ouezzane
- Martimprey du Kiss
- Kasba-Tadla
- Boujad

5 - 7%
- Oujda
- Tiznit
- Ouarzazate
- Azemmour

3 - 5%
- El-Kelaa-des-Sraghna
- Guercif
- Oued-Zem

You forgot Debdou.
80/90 %

[jouhara]

merci pour tout ce que vous nous presenter sur l'histoire de notre pays .une vraie encyclopedie !

[Urbanistica]

Originally Posted by jouhara

merci pour tout ce que vous nous presenter sur l'histoire de notre pays .une vraie encyclopedie !

Merci a vous, et je vous invite a participer pour enrichir ce forum

[walou]

http://www.telquel-online.com/247/maroc4_247.shtml

zanadiqa

[MNahass94]

L’Empire ottoman (Osmanlı İmparatorluğu en turc moderne) est un empire qui a existé de 1299 à 1922 (soit 623 ans). Il a laissé la place, entre autres, à la République de Turquie. Fondé par un clan turcique oghouze en Anatolie occidentale, l'Empire ottoman s'étendait au faîte de sa puissance sur trois continents : toute l'Anatolie, le haut-plateau arménien, les Balkans, le pourtour de la mer Noire, la Syrie, la Palestine, la Mésopotamie, la péninsule Arabique et l'Afrique du Nord (à l'exception du Maroc).
(Wikipédia)

[MNahass94]

Alors que le "Maroc utile" est en proie aux convoitises des entités politiques voisines ainsi qu'aux déchirements internes, trois grandes tribus berbères se partagent les régions sahariennes. Les Lemtouna, Massoufa et Goddala (ou Gadala, lointains descendants des antiques Gétules), tous trois membres de la confédération Sanhaja et islamisés deux siècles et demi plus tôt, guerroient et vagabondent régulièrement en direction du sud où ils menacent l'empire du Ghana et d'autres états soudanais. De la tribu Lemtouna, l'émir Yahya Ibn Ibrahim se rend vers 1035 accomplir le pèlerinage à La Mecque. Là bas, il prend conscience de la nécessité de parfaire l'islam de ses congénères des régions de l'Adrar. En halte à Kairouan, il tente pour cela d'obtenir un appui logistique de la part d'éminences religieuses locales, mais sans résultat. Ce sera dans la région de Taroudant qu'un dénommé Ou Agg ben Zellou lui indiqua l'existence d'un prédicateur dans le désert, un certain Abdallah Ibn Yasin originaire du sud marocain. Yahya Ibn Ibrahim et Abdallah Ibn Yasin s'en retournèrent donc tous deux dans l'Adrar convertir les Djoudala (tribu des Lemtouna) au malékisme puritain. Si au départ leurs enseignements sont plutôt bien accueillis, leur austérité et leurs méthodes radicales (instruments de musique et habits de couleurs vives bannis) finirent par lasser. Yahya Ibn Ibrahim et Abdallah Ibn Yasin errèrent donc dans le désert et s'en allèrent donc fonder un ribat sur l'île de Tidra entre la baie du Lévrier et le cap Timiris. Là ils conceptualisèrent une véritable doctrine qui leur valut le nom d'Almoravides (de Al-murabitun, المرابطون), les gens du ribat.

(Wikipédia)



( j'aime trop bien cette carte ! i like this map xD )

[seo_corporation]

Originally Posted by Redalinho

Most Moroccans are Sunni Muslims of Arab, Berber, or mixed Arab-Berber stock. The Arabs came to Morocco in the 7th and 11th centuries and established their culture there. There is also a small population of Gnawa, black Moroccans who are the descendants of ancestors from the Sahel region around what is present-day Mali. They are renowned for their music, which is believed to possess healing properties.Morocco's Jewish minority has decreased significantly and numbers about 7,000 (See History of the Jews in Morocco). Most of the 100,000 foreign residents are French or Spanish; many are teachers, technicians and businessmen.

There is no significant genetic differences between Moroccan Arabs and Moroccan non-Arabs (ie Berbers and Saharawis). Thus, it is likely that Arabization was mainly a cultural process without genetic replacement. However, and according to the European Journal of Human Genetics, North-Western Africans were genetically closer to Iberians and to other Europeans than to African Americans.

Population

29.9 millions inhabitants (2004)

Ethnic groups

- Arab-Andalusians 15%: Spanish Muslims and Jews who moved to Morocco rather than submit to forced conversion.
- Berbers 30% : Amazigh people are an ethnic group indigenous to Northwest Africa, speaking the Berber languages of the Afroasiatic family
- Gnawa 8%: The Gnawas' population are generally believed to originate from the Sahelian region of West and Central Africa, which had long and extensive trading and political ties with Morocco , including gold and slave trades.
- Arab-Berbers 34%
- Jews 1% : Moroccan Jews constitute an ancient community. Before the founding of Israel in 1948, there were about 300,000
- Harratins 10%: the word Haratin tends to be applied to the dark-skinned agriculturalists of the southern oases
- Sahrawis 2% : The term Sahrawi refers to a collection of Hassaniya Arabic speaking nomadic tribes, of Arab-Berber heritage, mainly descended from Western Moroccan Sahara

Languages

- Arabic (official)
- Moroccan Arabic (Darija)82% : The language spoken in the Arabic-speaking areas of Morocco, as opposed to the official communications of governmental and other public bodies which use Modern Standard Arabic, as is the case in most Arabic-speaking countries, while a mixture of French and Moroccan Arabic is used in Business
- Judæo-Moroccan Arabic 1%: Arabic dialects of Jewish communities
- Tashelhiyt 33% : Tashelhiyt is spoken in Southern Morocco an area ranging from the northern slopes of the High-Atlas to the southern slopes of the Anti-Atlas, bounded to the west by the Atlantic Ocean
- Tarifit 6% : Tarifit is a Berber language, belonging to the Zenati subgroup of Northern Berber, and possibly the Rif subgroup of Zenati
- Middle Atlas Tamazight 10% : Bordered by the rich Plaine du Saïs and the cities of Fes, Meknes and Beni Mellal, the mountainous reaches of the Middle Atlas are the stronghold of Berber tribes, speaking Tamazight and living at very low population densities
- Judeo-Berber 0.5% : Hebrew-influenced Berber varieties spoken by some Berbers Jews specially in Southern Morocco.
- Ghomari 0.1%: Northern Berber language of the Zenati subgroup, spoken on the eastern edge of the Rif
- Haketia 0.2% : Jewish-Moroccan Spanish , also known as Djudeo Spañol or Ladino Occidental (western Ladino), spoken on the Northeast coast of Morocco
- Senhaja 0,5%: Contrary to the Ethnologue, it is not extinct; Harry Stroomer reports that "Senhaja de Srair is alive" It is apparently not immediately mutually intelligible with Tarifit, and is spoken only by a small minority among the Senhaja, in the area known as the "Little Senhaja"
- Zenati 1%: The Zenata are one of the main divisions of the medieval Berbers, along with Senhaja and Masmuda
Hassānīya 1% Though clearly a western dialect, Hassānīya is relatively distant from other North African variants of Arabic. Its geographical location exposed it to influence from Zenaga and Wolof. The phonological system of Hassānīya is both very innovative and very conservative. All phonemes of Classical Arabic are represented in the dialect, but new phonemes are numerous, too
- French 35%: French is an administrative language and is commonly understood (though not official)
- Spanish 15%: Specially in Western Sahara, Sidi Ifni, Northern Morocco (both standard Spanish and Ladino), and the Spanish colonies of Sebta and Melillia
- English: Widely used in business activities


Religions

- Muslim 97.7% : From the Sunni Maliki School
- Christian 1.1%: 60% are Roman Catholics and the country is divided into two archdioceses; Rabat and Tangier
- Jewish 0.2%: 7.000 (2000) ; 500.000 (1940)
- Bahai: 500 to 1.500

Source: wikipedia

Quite informative post about Morocco.

[halazoun]

Originally Posted by Redalinho

Houari means courageous and hardy and sometimes it means also pious.

Houara is also the name of an important berber tribe living in Algeria and in Morocco ( South of Agadir)

nope the houara tribe located between agadir and taroudant is arab http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwCkWosfgbA un drole d'accent
les berberes de la plaine sont les chtouka