26/02/2025
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Moroccan legend says that the Erg Chebbi sand dunes were sent by God as a punishment for turning away a weary traveler from Morocco's Sahara desert. Moroccans believe that the dunes piled up outside Merzouga to teach them a lesson so that they would never refuse to help tired travelers ever again.
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According to the oral memory of its inhabitants, Merzouga was only founded as a sedentary settlement and gravitational centre for the Aรฏt Khebbach Berber tribe (part of the Aรฏt Atta confederation) during the period of French colonisation, or from the 1930s onwards. This desert region had long resisted the central authority of the Makhzen and the colonial power. Strongly marked by nomadism, pastoralism and the trading caravan activities, this region suffered its first blow from the consequences of colonisation, which saw the tribesโ movements restricted and the disappearance of the protection that had been set up for oasis communities (extending from Rteb and Tafilalt in Morocco to Gourara and Touat in what is now Algeria, that is, an area almost 1,000 km long). The subsequent development of agriculture and mining (particularly the lead mines at Mfis4) and the demarcation of the borders following first Moroccan and then Algerian independence forced nomadism into a dynamic of involution (Lefรฉbure, 1986), that is, a slow process of retraction. It subsequently suffered a second blow in the 1970s and 1980s.
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