Beni Bouayach
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| Region : | Tangier-Tétouan-Al Hoceïma | ||||
| Province : | Al Hoceïma | ||||
| Coordinates | 35 ° 6 ′ N , 3 ° 50 ′ W | ||||
| Residents : | 15,497 (2004) | ||||
| Height : | 125 m | ||||
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Beni Bouayach or Aït Bouayach ( Arabic بني بوعياش, Central Atlas Tamazight ⴰⵢⵜ ⴱⵓⵄⵢⴰⵛ Ayt Buɛyac ) is a small Moroccan town with about 18,000 inhabitants in the province of Al Hoceima in the Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceïma region .
location
The city is located about 25 kilometers southeast of the coastal town of Al-Hoceima at an altitude of about 125 m above sea level. d. M. in the valley of the Oued Nekor .
population
Much of the population is of Berber descent; Tarifit and Moroccan Arabic are spoken .
economy
In the past, the inhabitants lived as self-sufficient farmers from farming and livestock farming. Many men have found work in Europe since the 1960s.
history
Beni Bouayach was probably built on the ruins of Noukour , the historical capital of the Emirate of Noukour , which was founded in 710 by Salih I ibn Mansur . Italian and Spanish archaeologists try to test whether the Azdâji, under Emir Ya'la ibn Futuh, dammed Beni Bouayach through a dam during the invasion in 1019 and plundered it.
In 1908, Beni Bouayach formed the southern border of the realm of Bou Hamara . From here succeeded Bou Hamara in the coup from the mine camp of Compañía Española de Minas del Rif to "kidnap". Beni Bouayach was a weapon repair shop during the Second Moroccan War . Duds from lost bombs were found in Ait Bouäyach during the use of chemical weapons in the Rif War .
During the Spanish protectorate , Beni Bouayach had no more than 1000 inhabitants. From 1958 to 1960, about 8,000 people were killed in the Rif Intifada . Beni Bouäyach was a center of hunger riots in the 1980s. In February 2004, an earthquake in the province of Al Hoceima, with an intensity of 6.7 on the Richter scale, killed around 1,000 people in Beni Bouayach. Many migrant workers in Europe come from Beni Bouayach; With their transfer payments, they ensure many investments in the Rif region. Several projects were also initiated on the Moroccan government side in the last decades of the 20th century. B. the construction of apartment complexes, streets and a new market.
People from Beni Bouayach
- The Defense Minister of the Rif Republic , Nazir al-harbiyya, came from Ait Bouayach.
- In 1889 Mohammad Amezian, the leader of the Rif uprising of 1959, was born in Beni Bouayach.
- 20 militants who occupied the airport in 1959 came to Beni Bouayach.
- Moulay 3mA, an Amazigh activist in the Netherlands, was born in Beni Bouayach.
- Ilyas El Omari , Moroccan politician and General Secretary of the Authenticity and Modernity Party, President of the Tangier-Tétouan-Al Hoceïma region
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Moroccan population statistics ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ M. Tahtah, Entre pragmatisme, réformisme et modernisme: Le Role Politico-Religieux De Khattabi Dans Le Rif Peeters Publishers, 2000, p. 125
