TAFILALT, or TAFILET (i.e. " The Country of the Filali," as its inhabitants are called, because descended from the Arabian tribe of Hill, settled here in the 11th century)

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TAFILALT, or TAFILET (i.e. " The Country of the Filali," as its inhabitants are called, because descended from the Arabian tribe of Hill, settled here in the 11th century) , the most important

oasis

OASIS (Gr. &toss, the name given by
Herodotus
- HERODOTUS (c. 484-425 B.C.)
to the fertile spots in the Libyan desert: it probably represents an Egyptian word, cf. Coptic ouahe, ouih, to dwell, from which the Egyptian Arabic sod is derived)

of the Moroccan Sahara, ten days' journey

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

of Fez, across the

Atlas

ATLAS

. It is celebrated for its large and luscious

dates

DATES

, to the successful cultivation of which, soon after thearrival of an ancestor of the reigning dynasty of Morocco (hence called the Filali Sharifs, i.e. descendants of

Mahomet

MAHOMET (strictly MUHAMMAD, commonly also MOHAMMED)

) circ. A.D. 1250, this dynasty owes its rise to power. Since 1648 it has been the custom of Moorish sultans to despatch superfluous sons and daughters to

Tafilalt

TAFILALT, or TAFILET (i.e. " The Country of the Filali," as its inhabitants are called, because descended from the Arabian tribe of Hill, settled here in the 11th
century
- CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)
)

, and as the males are all sharifs, the fanaticism against Europeans is comprehensible. Instead of living in towns its bellicose inhabitants occupy isolated fortified buildings, and are constantly at war. In Ifli, the central portion, formerly existed the town of Sagilmasa, founded by Miknasa Berbers in 757 B.C. It was on the direct caravan route from the Niger to Tangier, and attained a considerable degree of prosperity. It was destroyed at the end of the 11th

century

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

, but its ruins still extend five miles along the river bank.
The first European to visit

Tafilalt

TAFILALT, or TAFILET (i.e. " The Country of the Filali," as its inhabitants are called, because descended from the Arabian tribe of Hill, settled here in the 11th century)

was Rene Caillie (1828), the next

Gerhard

GERHARD
GERHARD, FRIEDRICH WILHELM EDUARD (1795-1867)

Rohlfs

ROHLFS, FRIEDRICH
GERHARD
- GERHARD
- GERHARD, FRIEDRICH WILHELM EDUARD (1795-1867)
(1831—1896)

(1864). A later visit to the

oasis

OASIS (Gr. &toss, the name given by
Herodotus
- HERODOTUS (c. 484-425 B.C.)
to the fertile spots in the Libyan desert: it probably represents an Egyptian word, cf. Coptic ouahe, ouih, to dwell, from which the Egyptian Arabic sod is derived)

by W. B. Harris is described in his book Tafilet (London, 1895).

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