Bni Makada is one of the four ''arrondissements'' or districts of the city of Ṭanja,

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 to ...

. Administratively it is part of the prefecture of Ṭanja-Aẓila in the region of Ṭanja-Tiṭwan-Elḥusima. The 2014 Moroccan census recorded a population of 386,191 people living in 91,737 households.

Name

Bni Makada is named after a tribe of the

Houara Hawwara ( Berber: ''Ihuwwaren'', ), also spelled Huwwara, Howwara, Hewwara or Houara, is a large tribal confederation of Berbers and Arabized Berbers spread widely in the Maghreb, with descendants in Upper Egypt and Sudan. Hawwara are amongst th ...

, who settled in the area in the late 17th century during the reign of Sultan

Moulay Ismail ibn Sharif Moulay Ismail Ibn Sharif ( ar, مولاي إسماعيل بن الشريف), born around 1645 in Sijilmassa and died on 22 March 1727 at Meknes, was a Sultan of Morocco from 1672–1727, as the second ruler of the Alaouite dynasty. He was the sev ...

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