A map of the historical Chaouia province and the territories of Chaouia tribes.
Oulad Zyan or Awlad Ziyan (al-Hilalia) (Arabic: أولاد زيان) is a tribe in Morocco belonging to the Chaouia tribal confederation.[1]
The special feature of this tribe is that its lands are separated into two parts by a distance of 30 km.: Oulad Zyan Moualine el Oued, which is southeast of Casablanca, and Oulad Zyan Soualem, which is south-west of the same city.
^Mission Scientifique du Maroc (coll.), Villes et Tribus du Maroc: Casablanca et les Chaouïa, Ed. E. Leroux (Paris), 1915, Tome II, pp. 24-29
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