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أغنية "وزان يا الشريفة" للفنان القدير نعمان لحلو
إقليم وزان المغربي
تقع على خط 48°34' شمالا 5°35' غربا, على الشريط الجنوبي لجبال الريف المغربي،
صار يوم السبت 6 مارس 2010 يوماً تاريخياً لساكنة وزان. فهل كان أحد من أهلها يتوقع يوما بأن هذه المدينة ذات الحضور الوازن في تاريخ المغرب سيتم إنصافها يوما بعد أن عاشت على مدى قرابة خمسة عقود ضحية مقولة مخزنية تقول(اتركوا أهل وزان في وزانهم يفعلون ما يشاءون).لكن وهذه شهادة للتاريخ سيشكل الورش الكبير (ورش المصالحة والإنصاف) الذي أطلقه الملك محمد السادس بعد تربعه على العرش المدخل الأول لإنصاف دار الضمانة عندما اختار زيارتها بعد العقاب الظالم الذي تعرضت له في الماضي، واستجابته لمطالب السكان التي كان على رأسها رد الاعتبار لدار الضمانة من خلال فك ارتباطها عن جهة الغرب وترقيتها على عمالة، وهو الحدث التاريخي الذي عاشته المدينة يوم السبت الأخير. وتميزت مراسيم حفل تنصيب السيد محمد طلابي كأول عامل على رأس عمالة وزان بالكلمة الهامة التي ألقاها السيد محمد سعد العلمي الوزير المنتدب لدى الوزير الأول المكلف بتحديث القطاعات العامة. فبعد أن ذكر السيد الوزير بأهمية هذا الحدث التاريخي الذي تعيشه المدينة، مؤكدا بأن ترقية وزان إلى عمالة يندرج في إطار سياسة القرب والمصالحة التي ينهجها ملك البلاد ليس على مستوى الإدارة وحسب، ولكن وبالأساس بتوفير شروط ووسائل التنمية الاقتصادية والاجتماعية وتوفير إمكانيات إضافية للاستثمار في إقليم يزخر بالثروات والموارد ضلت على هامش دورة الاقتصاد الوطني.
تاريخ مدينة وزان :
لأصل تسمية المدينة راجع إلى ثلاثة روايات. الأولى فحواها أن أصل الكلمة لاتيني، وقد أطق هذا الاسم على المدينة من طرف أحد أباطرة الرومان الذي كان ولي عهده يحمل أوزينوس، ومنه جاءت كلمة "وزان".
والثانية مفادها ان نهرا كان يمر بالمدينة اسمه واد الزين ومنه اشتق اسم المدينة "وزان".
والثالثة الاسم أشتق من الكلمة العربية "الوزان" التي أطلقت على أحد الأشخاص المسمى بعبد السلام الذي كان يضع موازين له بمدخل المدينة بالمحل المعروف حاليا بالرمل،
وحيث كان التجار ملزمون باللجوء إليه لوزن بضاعتهم وسلعهم فأطلقوا عليه اسم الوزان، الذي حملته المدينة فيما بعد، نظرا لكثرة تداوله.
Ouazzane (also Wazan and Wazzan and Uessen) (Arabic: وزان) is a town in northern Morocco, with a population of approximately 57,972 (2004).[1]
The city is well known in Morocco and throughout the Islamic world by being a spiritual capital for it was home for many of the pillars of Sufism. It has been known also as “Dar Dmana”, Mr Karim Abdelrahman El Wazzan is the representative of this glorious city in Lebanon.
Many Jews of Morocco consider Ouezzane to be a holy city and make pilgrimages there to venerate the tomb of several marabouts (Moroccan saints), particularly moul Anrhaz, the local name for Rabbi Amram ben Diwan, an eighteenth-century rabbi who lived in the city and whose burial site is associated with a number ofmiracles.
During the Rif rebellion (leader Abd el Krim) in 1925 -1926 Ouezzane was an important supply base for French Army. Ouezzane was connected by an 600 mm gauge narrow gauge railway via Ain Dfali, Mechra Bel Ksiri to Port Lyautey, now Kenitra, forming part of the 1912 - 1914 French built extensive narrow gauge network of Chemins de fer Militaires du Maroc, the largest 600 mm gauge network ever existed in Africa with total length of more than 1700 kilometres.
Saturday, May 16, 2015
Todra Gorge, Morocco in 4K Ultra HD
Todgha Gorge (Arabic: مضيق تودغا) is a canyon in the eastern part of the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco, near the town of Tinerhir. Both the Todgha and neighbouring Dades Rivers have carved out cliff-sided canyons (Arabic: wadi) on their final 40 kilometres (25 mi) through the mountains. The last 600 metres (1,969 ft) of the Todgha gorge are the most spectacular. Here the canyon narrows to a flat stony track, in places as little as 10 metres (33 ft) wide, with sheer and smooth rock walls up to 160 metres (525 ft) high on each side.
The tiny glacier stream is something of a misfit, the river which once filled the gorge must have carried a lot more water. It is easy to hike in the gorge along a well-maintained paved road. The scenery is spectacular. Local people live in the area and can be seen with their small donkeys or herding camels and goats.
The area is no longer as remote as it once was. A well-maintained asphalt road leads up the valley from Tinerhir to the gorge. A concrete road continues up the valley, past the hotels at the mouth of the gorge all the way to the villages of Aït Hani, Tamtatouchte, and Imilchil.
Thanks to its robust rock sides with many uneven surfaces, todgha Gorge is popular among rock climbers. More than 150 routes rated French Grade 5+ to 8 have been bolted in the canyon.
Volubilis, Morocco in 4K Ultra HD وليلي
Volubilis (Arabic: وليلي Walīlī) is a partly excavated Roman city in Morocco situated near Meknes between Fes and Rabat. Built in a fertile agricultural area, it was developed from the 3rd century BC onwards as a Phoenician (and later Carthaginian) settlement. It grew rapidly under Roman rule from the 1st century AD onwards and expanded to cover about 40 hectares (100 acres) with a 2.6 km (1.6 mi) circuit of walls. The city gained a number of major public buildings in the 2nd century, including a basilica, temple and triumphal arch. Its prosperity, which was derived principally from olive growing, prompted the construction of many fine town-houses with large mosaic floors.
The town fell to local tribes around 285 and was never retaken by Rome because of its remoteness and indefensibility on the south-western border of the Roman Empire. It continued to be inhabited for at least another 700 years, first as a Latinised Christian community, then as an early Islamic settlement. In the late 8th century it became the seat of Idris ibn Abdallah, the founder of the Idrisid dynasty and the state of Morocco. By the 11th century Volubilis had been abandoned after the seat of power was relocated to Fes. Much of the local population was transferred to the new town of Moulay Idriss Zerhoun, about 5 km (3.1 mi) from Volubilis.
The ruins remained substantially intact until they were devastated by an earthquake in the mid-18th century and subsequently looted by Moroccan rulers seeking stone for building Meknes. It was not until the latter part of the 19th century that the site was definitively identified as that of the ancient city of Volubilis. During and after the period of French rule over Morocco, about half of the site was excavated, revealing many fine mosaics, and some of the more prominent public buildings and high-status houses were restored or reconstructed. Today it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, listed for being "an exceptionally well preserved example of a large Roman colonial town on the fringes of the Empire".
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