An-Na'āma

Naâma lies on the western high plains, north of the Ksour Mountains. The steppe gives way southward to the Saharan Atlas, where old fortified villages stand beside oases and mountain routes. Among them are Moghrar and Tiout, settlements whose stone and earthen buildings belong to the long history of the region's ksour. From the seventeenth century, the Awlad Sidi Shaykh linked religious communities, cultivators and pastoral groups across the mountain country.