Gharb (Morocco)

Gharb (sometimes Rharb, in Arabic: غرب "west") is a historical and geographical region in northern Morocco.

It 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.

[2][3] Historical author and diplomat Leo Africanus places Azghar under the Kingdom of Fez and writing about Azghar said:[4]Azgar is a province bounded by the ocean to the north by the river Bou Regreg to the west, by the Ghomara, Zerhoun and Zalagh mountains to the east and by the river Bou Nasr to south.

The inhabitants are all Arabs called al-Khlot by the ruler of the al-Muntafiq; they are subjects of the king of Fez when he wages important wars, and their province supplies food, livestock and horses to all the Ghomara mountains, as well as the city of Fez.

The kings stays here all winter and spring, for the land is healthy and abounds with deer and hares to hunt, although there are few woods.The Gharb is largely inhabited by tribes of Arab origin:[2][3][5]