Tamegroute
Sign in to saveTamegroute is a village located in the Draa River valley in the foothills of the Moroccan pre-Sahara. In Tamazigh languages, the name literally translates to "Final Place Before the Desert."
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Tamegroute
- Settlement.native_name
- ⵜⴰⵎⵖⵔⵓⵜ تامكروت
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- File:Traditional Earthen Buildings of Tamegroute, Morocco (2025).jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Traditional earthen buildings of Tamegroute
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- Morocco
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- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
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- Location in Morocco
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- Country
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- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Drâa-Tafilalet
- Settlement.population_total
- 21,603
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2014
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- Ethnicities
- Settlement.timezone
- WET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +0
- Settlement.timezone_DST
- WEST
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Article
8 sectionsContents
- Climate
- History
- Moussem
- Pottery
- Abu-l-Hasan Ali Ibn Mohammed al-Tamgruti
- Notes
- Bibliography and external links
- Footnotes
Tamegroute is a village located in the Draa River valley in the foothills of the Moroccan pre-Sahara. In Tamazigh languages, the name literally translates to "Final Place Before the Desert."
It historically served as a hub of learning, libraries, and religion through its famous Sufi zawiya, the historical center of the Nasiriyya order, one of the most influential Sufi orders in the Islamic world. Tamegroute's glazed ceramics are also very well known.