See also:

• 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)

TAFILALT, or TAFILET (i.e. " The See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

Country of the Filali," as its inhabitants are called, because descended from the Arabian tribe of See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

Hill, settled here in the 11th See also:

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

century)  , the most important See also:

• OASIS (Gr. &toss, the name given by Herodotus 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)

oasis of the Moroccan See also:

• SAHARA

Sahara, ten days' See also:

• JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

journey See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south of See also:

• FEZ (Fes)

Fez, across the See also:

• ATLAS

Atlas . It is celebrated for its large and luscious See also:

• DATES

dates, to the successful cultivation of which, soon after thearrival of an ancestor of the reigning See also:

• DYNASTY (Gr. &vvaareta, sovereignty, the position of a hevnori7r, lord, ruler, from SuvaaBay to be able, Suvaµas, power)

dynasty of See also:

• MOROCCO

Morocco (hence called the Filali Sharifs, i.e. descendants of See also:

• MAHOMET (strictly MUHAMMAD, commonly also MOHAMMED)

Mahomet) circ . A.D . 1250, this dynasty owes its rise to See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power . Since 1648 it has been the See also:

• CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom of Moorish sultans to despatch superfluous sons and daughters to See also:

• 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)

Tafilalt, and as the See also:

• MALES

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 See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war . In Ifli, the central portion, formerly existed the See also:

• TOWN

town of Sagilmasa, founded by Miknasa See also:

• BERBERS

Berbers in 757 B.C . It was on the See also:

• DIRECT

direct See also:

• CARAVAN (more correctly Karwan)

caravan route from the See also:

• NIGER
• NIGER, GAIUS PESCENNIUS

Niger to See also:

• TANGIER (locally TANJAH)

Tangier, and attained a considerable degree of prosperity . It was destroyed at the end of the 11th See also:

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

century, but its ruins still extend five See also:

• MILES, NELSON APPLETON (1839— )

miles along the See also:

• RIVER

river See also:

• BANK

bank . The first See also:

• EUROPEAN

European to visit Tafilalt was Rene Caillie (1828), the next See also:

• GERHARD
• GERHARD, FRIEDRICH WILHELM EDUARD (1795-1867)

Gerhard See also:

• ROHLFS, FRIEDRICH GERHARD (1831—1896)

Rohlfs (1864) . A later visit to the oasis by W . B .

See also:

• HARRIS, GEORGE, 1ST BARON (1746–1829)
• HARRIS, JAMES (1709-1780)
• HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER (1848-1908)
• HARRIS, JOHN (c. 1666-1719)
• HARRIS, SIR WILLIAM SNOW
• HARRIS, THOMAS LAKE (1823-1906)
• HARRIS, WILLIAM TORREY (1835-1909)

Harris is described in his See also:

• BOOK

book Tafilet (See also:

• LONDON

London, 1895) .