Berrechid

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Berrechid
برشيد
Municipality and town
Berrechid Province administration building in Berrechid
Berrechid Province administration building in Berrechid
Berrechid is located in Morocco
Berrechid
Berrechid
Location in Morocco
Berrechid is located in Africa
Berrechid
Berrechid
Berrechid (Africa)
Coordinates: 33°16′N 7°35′W / 33.267°N 7.583°W / 33.267; -7.583
Country Morocco
RegionCasablanca-Settat
ProvinceBerrechid
Elevation
213 m (699 ft)
Population
 (2014)[1]
 • Total
136,634
 • Rank23rd in Morocco
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)

Berrechid (Arabic: برشيد) is a town and municipality in Berrechid Province of the Casablanca-Settat region of Morocco. It recorded a population of 136,634 inhabitants in the 2014 Moroccan census.[1] At the time of the 2004 census, the commune had a total population of 89,830 people living in 18,808 households.[2]

"Berrechid" is also a metonym for Berrechid Hospital, which first opened as a European-style asylum in 1919 under French colonial rule and was the first place for psychiatric treatment in Morocco.[3][4][5]

References

  1. ^ a b "POPULATION LÉGALE DES RÉGIONS, PROVINCES, PRÉFECTURES, MUNICIPALITÉS, ARRONDISSEMENTS ET COMMUNES DU ROYAUME D'APRÈS LES RÉSULTATS DU RGPH 2014" (in Arabic and French). High Commission for Planning, Morocco. 8 April 2015. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
  2. ^ "Recensement général de la population et de l'habitat de 2004" (PDF). Haut-commissariat au Plan, Lavieeco.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2012. Retrieved 21 June 2012.
  3. ^ Stein, D. (2000-11-28). "Views of mental illness in Morocco: Western medicine meets the traditional symbolic". CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal. 163 (11): 1468–1470. ISSN 0820-3946. PMC 80417. PMID 11192655.
  4. ^ Corfield, Justin (2013). "Morocco". In Scull, Andrew (ed.). Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness: An A-to-Z Guide. SAGE Publishing. p. 555. ISBN 9781483388991.
  5. ^ Laboudi, Fouad; Ragoug, Allal; Mehssani, Jamal (June 2016). "Psychiatry in Morocco during the French Protectorate" (PDF). International Journal of Science and Research. 5 (6): 837–839. doi:10.21275/v5i6.NOV163961.


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