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'''Oued Zem''' ([[Berber languages{{Lang-ar|Berber]]:وادي ⵡⴻⵙزم|translit=Wādī ⵣⴻⵎZem}}) is a city in [[Khouribga Province]], [[Béni Mellal-Khénifra]], [[Morocco]]. According to the [[2014 Moroccan census]], Oued Zem had a population of 95,267.<ref name=census2014/>

Oued Zem is a Moroccan city located in central Morocco, in the Chaouia-Ouardigha region in the Khouribga province, on an area of 75,000 hectares between the axis of [[Casablanca]], [[Beni Mellal]] and between the axis of [[Rabat]], [[Marrakesh|Marrakech]], with a population of 83,970 people (2004 census). The city is rich in [[phosphate]], iron and marble.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}

The name of the city is made up of two words: [[Wadi|Oued]] , an Arabic word which indicates the [[river]] and Zem , an [[Berbers|Amazigh]] word which means lion, in reference to the river and the lion (Lion of the Atlas) which frightened people who walked therewerethere. For this reason, they named this region Oued Zem , or the river of the lion.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}

The city became a storehouse of weapons and fuel, and its rule extended to Moulay Bouazza, Al-Buruj, and the Awlad Zaydouh, and it began to grow with the expansion of its urbanization and with it the social and economic facilities, where the military and civil hospitals were founded. Police, and public works. With this growth, the features of an emerging city began to appear, and its growth increased before independence due to immigration of various origins. Phosphate mines played a key role in bringing the population to the city and the region together, which contributed up to the 1982 borders in a double growth that reached 2.5 percent, which is higher than the national growth rate. to other cities. In 1658 Oued Zem was near to be a Spanish city but '''Jose Luis Torrente''' said that they won`t kill their citizens because he wanted the peace.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}

== Oued Zem Revolution Auguston 20 of the yearAugust 1955 ==

The day after Morocco's [[independence]] in 1956, it was called the City of Revolution and Martyrs. Its revolutionaries are proud of the Oued Zem [[Revolution]] of August 20 of the year 1955.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=27 December 2012 |title=Parution : “La plus longue matinée d’Oued Zem 20 août 1955” |url=https://www.libe.ma/Parution-La-plus-longue-matinee-d-Oued-Zem-20-aout-1955_a33481.html |journal=[[Libération]]}}</ref> This revolution was considered by the French colonialists as an interest in the right of the French, who at that time were residing in abundance in Oued Zem, especially among the French dignitaries, and they were They call the Oued Zem little Paris. It was a major turning point in the history of this city. On Saturday, August 20 of the year 1955, everything was quiet in Oued Zem, unlike Abi al-Jaad, which led to a request for [[reinforcements]] to it from Oued Zem and [[Kasba Tadla|Kasbah Tadla]], as stated in a statement by the Resident-General Gilbert Crandvall in the memoirs of “My Mission in [[Morocco]]”: “Events broke out In Abi Al-Jaad at eight in the morning on the 20th of August, and it was suppressed shortly after, and the uprising of the neighboring city broke out at half past eight. The driver of the front truck was forced to stop by firing, at that time the excitement of the [[Enthusiasm|enthusiasts]] [[intensified]], so they rushed in one go, during which he was killed, and by nine o'clock in the morning the tribes of Samala, Bani Samir and Bani Khairan took control of the city and the train station was destroyed. This situation encouraged the residents of the regions of Al-Sama'ala, Bani Samir and Bani Khairan to gather in Oued Zem, despite the French's attempts to prevent this from happening. In the street of the Monday market, the French high official gave orders to use [[Weapon|weapons]] and kill every [[Demonstration (people)|demonstrator]]. Many residents were martyred in the interest of the French forces.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}