Amizmiz (أمزميز
AMZ-meez) is a small town in
MoroccoMorocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 32 million and an area just under . Its capital is Rabat, and its largest city is Casablanca. Morocco has a coast on the Atlantic Ocean that reaches past the Strait of Gibraltar into the...
approximately 55 kilometers south of
MarrakechMarrakech or Marrakesh , known as the "Red City", is an important and former imperial city in Morocco...
. It lies at the foot of the
High AtlasHigh Atlas, also called the Grand Atlas Mountains is a mountain range in central Morocco in Northern Africa.The High Atlas rises in the west at the Atlantic Ocean and stretches in an eastern direction to the Moroccan-Algerian border. At the Atlantic and to the southwest the range drops abruptly...
mountain range.
Its population of approximately 11,000 consists mainly of Berbers of
ChleuhThe Chleuh people are a Berber ethnic group. They live mainly in Morocco's Atlas Mountains and Souss Valley. The Chleuh population is estimated to be approximately 10,000,000.They speak the Tashelhiyt language in several regional varieties...
origin who speak the
TashelhiytTashelhiyt is the largest Berber language by number of speakers...
dialect. Its weekly
soukA souq is a commercial quarter in an Arab or Berber city. The term is often used to designate the market in any Arabized or Muslim city...
every Tuesday is well-known in the area.
Geographically and economically, Amizmiz acts as a juncture point between the many small Berber villages in the surrounding area.
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Amizmiz (أمزميز
AMZ-meez) is a small town in
MoroccoMorocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country located in North Africa with a population of nearly 32 million and an area just under . Its capital is Rabat, and its largest city is Casablanca. Morocco has a coast on the Atlantic Ocean that reaches past the Strait of Gibraltar into the...
approximately 55 kilometers south of
MarrakechMarrakech or Marrakesh , known as the "Red City", is an important and former imperial city in Morocco...
. It lies at the foot of the
High AtlasHigh Atlas, also called the Grand Atlas Mountains is a mountain range in central Morocco in Northern Africa.The High Atlas rises in the west at the Atlantic Ocean and stretches in an eastern direction to the Moroccan-Algerian border. At the Atlantic and to the southwest the range drops abruptly...
mountain range.
Its population of approximately 11,000 consists mainly of Berbers of
ChleuhThe Chleuh people are a Berber ethnic group. They live mainly in Morocco's Atlas Mountains and Souss Valley. The Chleuh population is estimated to be approximately 10,000,000.They speak the Tashelhiyt language in several regional varieties...
origin who speak the
TashelhiytTashelhiyt is the largest Berber language by number of speakers...
dialect. Its weekly
soukA souq is a commercial quarter in an Arab or Berber city. The term is often used to designate the market in any Arabized or Muslim city...
every Tuesday is well-known in the area.
Geographically and economically, Amizmiz acts as a juncture point between the many small Berber villages in the surrounding area. The weekly souk is an important part of this economic role, as individual Berber farmers from the hills surrounding Amizmiz bring their produce and livestock to sell and, in return, purchase packaged food items like tea and sugar—items brought in from Marrakech by local merchants.
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