Terrest

Terrest lies on the middle course of the Moulouya, near Tissaf and Outat El Haj, where the river crosses the dry plains below the eastern Middle Atlas. Rising where the Middle and High Atlas meet, the Moulouya runs more than 500 km to the Mediterranean, and the villages along its banks farmed in otherwise stony country. Before they founded their dynasty, the Zenata Banu Marin moved their herds each year between the Figuig oasis and the Moulouya basin; in the 1240s they rode north from these grazing lands to take Taza and Fez.