- Temara
Temara (Arabic: تمارة) is a coastal city in
Morocco . It is part of the WilayaRabat -Salé, and is located directly south ofRabat on the Atlantic coast, in the suburban area of the capital. The city has 225,497 inhabitants as of 2004. It is twinned withSaint Germain en Laye ,France . The city has beaches and a small pleasure port.History
Temara was founded in the twelfth century (1130-1163) by the
Almohad SultanAbd al-Mumin , who built a mosque there. Five centuries later,Mulai Ismail built the current wall and made from Témara a ribat (casern) around said mosque. Later,Mulai Abd ar-Rahman (1822-1859) and MoulayAbdul Aziz (1894–1908), completed (Kasbah de guiche Oudaïa) as religious and military camps.Economy
Temara is close to Morocco's two main cities, Rabat, the capital, and economic center
Casablanca .Two main zones share the essence of the industrial units in the city of Temara. The first is in the direction of
Casablanca , 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).External links
* [http://temara.npage.de/ Temara]
References
* [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/MO/24/Temara.html FallingRain Map - elevation = 77m (Red dots are railways)]
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