Temara ( ar, تمارة; ber, ⵜⵎⴰⵔⴰ) is a coastal city in Morocco.Temara
Location information. It is located in the region of Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, directly south 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 ...

on the Atlantic coast, in the suburban area of the capital. The city has 313,510 inhabitants as of 2014 and is the capital of

Skhirate-Témara Prefecture Skhirate-Témara is a prefecture of Morocco in the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra region. The prefecture capital is the city of Temara Temara ( ar, تمارة; ber, ⵜⵎⴰⵔⴰ) is a coastal city in Morocco.Location information. It is located in th ...

. It is twinned with Saint Germain en Laye, France. The city has beaches and a small pleasure port.

History

Temara was founded in the twelfth century (1130–1163) by Sultan Othman El Arfaoui, who built a mosque there and named it Al Maha. Five centuries later,

Mulai Ismail 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 ...

built the current wall and made from Temara a ribat (casern) around Said mosque. Later, Mulay Abd ar-Rahman (1822–1859) and Mulay Abdul Aziz (1894–1908), completed ( Kasbah of the Udayas) as religious and military camps.

Climate

Temara has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate ( Köppen climate classification ''Csa''). In winter there is more rainfall than in summer. The average annual temperature in Temara is . About of precipitation falls annually.

Economy

Temara is close to Morocco's two main cities,

, the capital, and economic center

Casablanca Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's econom ...

. Two main zones share the essence of the industrial units in the city of Temara. The first is in the direction of

, and, with a total area of 120 hectares, extensible to 300 Ha work 55 industrial units in this zone, contains the more clean industry sectors (textiles, packaging, printing, food). The second industrial zone is at the other end of town, in the direction of Rabat. It is the industrial zone Attasnia, which, with a total of 20 hectares, contains 23 industrial units (such as textiles, electronics, chemicals).

People

The population was at first constituted by Zaer tribes and different tribes of Oudayas (Military groups from different regions of Morocco were established by the Sultan, as exchange of their Military service to the Sultan they had the right to cultivate the land). Now the population was diversified by all ethnicities in Morocco: Arabs and various Amazigh groups ( Riffians, Chleuhs and Hassanis).

Notable people

Mourad Hdiouad Mourad Hdiouad ( ar, مراد حدود; born 10 September 1976) is a former Moroccan international footballer who played as a midfielder. He played 19 matches for the Moroccan national team, representing the country at the 2004 African Cup of N ...

- Moroccan football manager

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{{Authority control Populated places in Rabat-Salé-Kénitra Skhirate-Témara Prefecture Municipalities of Morocco Prefecturial capitals in Morocco