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Oulad Ben Hammadi

rural commune in Morocco

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2024
Entity authorityQ2368935 ↗
Source-derived summary

Oulad Ben Hammadi is a small town and rural commune in Sidi Slimane Province, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra, Morocco. At the time of the 2004 census, the commune had a total population of 12,100 people living in 1,828 households.

Geography

Oulad Ben Hammadi is located at the eastern edge of Sidi Slimane Province adjacent to Sidi Kacem to the east. It is due east of the municipality of Sidi Slimane and northeast of Dar Bel Amri.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Oulad Ben Hammadi” as rural commune in Morocco. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Oulad, Hammadi and rural.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Oulad, Hammadi and rural providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 2, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q2368935. Authority coordinates are 34.200, -5.830. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “Oulad Ben Hammadi” 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.