Tinejdad

Tinejdad (also Tinjdad; Arab تنجداد, Tinaǧdād DMG ) is an oasis city of medium size with about 15,000 inhabitants - most of them Berber - in the province of Errachidia ( Meknès -Tafilalet region ) in the south-eastern Morocco.

Location

Tinejdad is located about 57 kilometers east of Tinerhir and about 85 km west of Erfoud directly on the N 10 at an altitude of about 1,000 m above sea level. inst. It is a long-drawn oasis settlement on both sides of the usually dry Oued Todra and the easternmost station on the "Road of the Kasbahs ."

History

Is the history of the place - in the absence of written records - nothing is known. As in all oasis valleys of southern Morocco, people are expected here but for thousands of years have become sedentary, because in the oases were found all that was necessary to a lasting survival: date palms and other shade trees ( pomegranate tree, fig tree, etc.) and fertile, easy to irrigated soils for the cultivation of cereals ( esp. barley) and vegetables ( esp. beans). However, livestock farming on a large scale was not possible in the oases, otherwise tedious cultivated crops were at risk.

Attractions

The formerly existing adobe buildings are largely disappeared from the cityscape and replaced by new buildings with walls made of hollow blocks, concrete ceilings, large windows and satellite dishes. The only attraction is the Tinejdad - Built in the 19th century and about 3 km west of the modern village located - Ksar El Khorbat with his running at right angles and built-up in several places trails. The overall architecture of Ksar not oriented to the more westerly Kasbahs of Tinerhir, inter alia, but to the regular scale Ksour around Rissani. The rammed earth - in part also of unbaked mud brick - built Ksar is only partly inhabited; other parts have been transformed in the years after 2000, an international collaboration to a museum and a hotel. The museum shows in multiple rooms exhibits from the everyday life of the Berbers.