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Ait Said

rural commune in Morocco

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ4699268 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ait Said is a small town and rural commune in Essaouira Province of the Marrakech-Tensift-Al Haouz region of Morocco. At the time of the 2004 census, the commune had a total population of 7081 people living in 1342 households.

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“Ait Said” enters the record as rural commune in Morocco. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Said, rural and commune can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004, 1342—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Said, rural and commune.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ait Said” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.