Rharb

Cultivation of sugar beets on large flat fields of the plain.

Rharb (sometimes Gharb, in Arabic: غرب "west") is a historical and geographical region in northern Morocco. This is a great plain, an area of about six thousand square kilometers in central Morocco, northeast of Rabat and northwest of Meknes, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the hills of pre-Rif.[1]

History

Ibn Khaldun – historian and diplomat of the North Africa from the 14th and 15th centuries – has described:[2]

See also

  • History portal
  • flagMorocco portal
  • Kenitra

References

  1. ^ "Présentation du Périmètre du Gharb". www2.ac-toulouse.fr. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
  2. ^ Khaldūn, Ibn; Slane, William MacGuckin baron de (1852-01-01). Histoire des Berbères et des dynasties musulmanes de l'Afrique Septentrionale (in French). Impr. du Gouvernement.