Tetouan (Thittaouine)

Morocco / Tangier-Tetouan / Tetouan /
 city, UNESCO World Heritage Site
Arabic: تطوان , The Berber name means literally "the eyes" and figuratively "the water springs"., also spelled Tetuan, sometimes Tettawen or Tettawan, is a city in northern Morocco, the only open port of Morocco on the Mediterranean Sea, a few miles south of the Strait of Gibraltar, and about 40 mi (60 km) E.S.E. of Tangier. In 2004 the city had 320,539 inhabitants (census figure). Tetouan has a little civil airport, 6km in the east. The Name is Sania Ramel Airport

Arabic is the official language but it is not used for everyday dialogue. Moroccan Darija-Arabic and Berber-Tamazight are used by the inhabitants in their daily life. The use of Spanish and French is still widespread especially by the businesspeople and intellectual elites. Its main religion is Islam but there are minorities of Jews and Christians.


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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tétouan
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Coordinates:   35°35'31"N   5°21'41"W

Comments

  • Tetouan is a very nice city that shows on the mediterranien beach
  • Tetouan, My Life, My Favorite Place. Welcome To Tetouan (tamouda)
  • Tetouan c'est ma vie, ma famille, c'est tout pour moi. Lieu des quatres saisons, visitez la! elle va vous plaire sûrement.
  • tetouan my life its very nice i like my cite becouse its funy .welcome to my city tetouan
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  • tetouan is a beautiful city that has old sewing with spains I am very happy because this is my city where I was born and where I will die
  • la mia bella tetouan ,mi manchiiiiiii
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