Wazan

Wazan, an inland town of Morocco, picturesque situated on the steep northern slope of a two-peaked mountain, in the hill-country 90 miles SE. of Tangier; pop. 20,000. It is a sacred city and a place of pilgrimage, the headquarters of the Grand Shereef. The principal buildings are the great mosque and the tombs of a long line of shereefs. The trade is, as elsewhere in Morocco, mainly in the hands of the Jews. See MOROCCO; also Watson, A Visit to Wazan (1880); and Harris in Blackwood's Magazine (1892).