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== History ==
The name of the city is made up of two words: [[Wadi|Oued]] , an Arabic word which indicates the [[river]] and Zem ,
The first railway was erected there in 1917, during the discovery of [[phosphate]] for the first time in [[Morocco]] by the colonizer at the time to export it abroad. The French called [[Oued Zem]] in Little Paris<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |date=7 September 2010 |title=Le Maroc des régions : Province de Settat : Oued Zem : «Le Petit Paris» |url=https://albayane.press.ma/le-maroc-des-regions-province-de-settat-oued-zemn-lle-petit-parisr.html |journal=[[Al Bayane]]}}</ref>, and they built a lake in the shape of a map of France, which is still to this day. The city played a major role in Morocco's [[independence]] thanks to the ferocity of its resistance.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |date=26 Aug 1955 |title=Trois mille soldats tentent d'encercler les tribus réfugiées dans les montagnes d'Oued-Zem |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1955/08/26/trois-mille-soldats-tentent-d-encercler-les-tribus-refugiees-dans-les-montagnes-d-oued-zem_1941505_1819218.html |journal=[[Le Monde]]}}</ref>
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