Ouezzane
1727/1140 AH, foundation
Morocco
Ouezzane is located on the northern slope of Mount Bouhelal at the southwestern edge of the Rif mountains, at an elevation of 325 meters. Founded in 1727 by the Sharif Mawlāy ʿAbd Allāh, a descendant of Idrīs I as a religious community on the site of a village named Dechra Jabal al-Rīḥān (“Village of the Mount of Myrtles”) by the Sharif Mawlāy ʿAbd Allāh, a descendant of Idrīs I. After his death he was buried in the city, and the site became a place of pilgrimage. It is also a pilgrimage site for Moroccan Jews because of the  Mausoleum of Rabbi Amran Ben Diwan who died in Ouezzane in 1782. 
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Ouezzane
وزان‎
Original
Wazan
Alternate transliteration
Wazzan
Alternate transliteration
Uessen
Alternate
Dechra Jabal al-Rīḥān
Formerly known as