Tabarida

Tabarida lies in the dry hills between Taza and Guercif, along the Oued Msoun as it runs east towards the Moulouya. This was the country of the Houara-Lahlaf, and the road from Fez to the eastern frontier crossed it. In 1684 Sultan Moulay Ismail founded the kasbah of Msoun on the riverbank here. The Moulouya just beyond was often treated as the border between Morocco and the Regency of Algiers, and in May 1692 Moulay Ismail's army fought the forces of the Dey of Algiers, Hadj Chabane, at one of its fords.