Tadla-Azilal

The area of Tadla-Azilal (in Arab: rear RTL تادلةأزيلال) is one of the sixteen areas Morocco. It is in the center of the country, including the plain of Tadla between the Top and the Average Atlas. Its surface is of: 17125 km ² for a population of: 1450519 inhabitants. Its place chief is Beni Mellal.

Geography

The area of Tadla-Azilal extends on a surface from: 16996 km ² and gather two provinces:

It is currently composed of 9 circles, 32 caidats, 9 urban communes whose 7 with the province of Blessed Mellal and 2 with the province of Azilal, and 73 rural communes of which 42 belong to the territory of the province of Azilal and 31 belong to that of the province of Blessed Mellal.

The area of Tadla-Azilal is limited to the west by the provinces of El Kalâa of Sraghna et al. Haouz, in north by the provinces of Khouribga and Settat, in the east by the provinces of Errachidia and Khénifra and in the south by the province of Ouarzazate.

Demography

In 1994, the population of the area reached them: 1324662 inhabitants, which accounts for 5% of the total population of Morocco. The rural population prevails with 66% of the totality of the inhabitants; what is raised, compared with the 49,6% with the national scales. With regard to the density of the population in the area, it is of 78 inhabitants per km ².

This population is distributed by province and medium as follows:

The Province Blessed Mellal

Surface: : 7196 km ²;
Total population: : 869748 inhabitants;
Urban population: : 386505 inhabitants;
rural Population: : 483243 inhabitants;
Density: 122 habitants/km ².

The Province of Azilal

Surface: : 9800 km ²;
Total population: : 504273 inhabitants;
Urban population: : 81685 inhabitants;
rural Population: : 422588 inhabitants;
Density: 52 habitants/km ².

History

The former inhabitants of Tadla were Berbères:

Zénètes, farmers in the plains
Haskura-Snaga, pastors in the mountains.

The first contact of Tadla with the Arabs took place at the time of the passage of the conqueror Oqba Ibn Nafaa (general Arab sent into 670) who returned from Known to Islamize Haskura. When Idris Ier conquered Tadla into 172/789, it found only one small number of Moslems there; the majority of the population was still made up of Jews or Christians.

In year 202/818, Andalusian Arabs fleeing the Spain following the revolution of Rabad (Suburb of Cordoue), were established in Tadla; a few years later, other Arabs of Fès followed them when an Emirate Idrissides was creates in this area.

The great Arab emigration took place only at the end of VI/XIIme, when the Almohades had decided to move towards Morocco the Arab Bedouins of Banu Hilal and Banu Sulaym which had taken foot in Tunisia. The Arabs spread themselves then in the country; Ibn Khaldoun known as on this subject:

the Arab immigrants Djusham and Ryah lived the plains, Morocco was submerged by innumerable tribes .

After the assassination of the almohade Yahya B. Nasir in 1236, Banu Jabir, another fraction of Djusham, flowed in Tadla and settled in Piedmont, bordering Snaga established on the tops and the plates. Banu Djabir were ventured sometimes towards the plains, but as soon as they feared a danger coming from the central capacity or a pitiless chief, they were folded up in the mountain near their Berber allies.

The Saadiens in their turn, introduced in Tadla of the Arabs Ma' kil, originating in the Yemen. This heterogeneous population ramified with time, its branches interpenetrated in a arabo-Berber interbreeding, giving rise to a composite community living in the harmony and solidarity.

By its strategic situation between North and the South and its check road connecting the two imperial cities Fès and Marrakech, in addition to its natural resources, Tadla constantly was the subject of an private interest on behalf of all the dynasties of the Morocco. Each one of them made a point of reinforcing its capacity on this area by naming high level representatives there, with a great influence. But these precautions by no means prevented the disorders from bursting of time to other, giving place to serious military confrontations, especially to each change of dynasty.

These conflicts flashed back annoyingly on the urban system of the area: cities are destroyed and rebuilt, others disappear and on their debris of the new cities are high. Thus with the the Middle Ages, the town of Tadla was the metropolis which gave its name to all the province; Al Himyari writes in its Al-Rawd Al mi' tar:

It is an ancient city or exist the vestiges of old the .

In its Nuzhat Al-Mushtah, Al Idrisi adds:

the town of Tadla occupied the first place in the production of cotton and exported of them great quantities in all the directions; it was in the Maghreb Al Aksa the principal matter in the manufacture of the cotton fabrics, so that the inhabitants of this country did not have no need to import of it .

External bonds

the Tadla-Azilal area in figures
Regional center of Investment of Tadla-Azilal
Gate of the city of Blessed Mellal

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