Place:Berrechid
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Berrechid (Arabic: برشيد) is a city and municipality in Berrechid Province of the Casablanca-Settat region of Morocco. The city is located about 39 kilometres (24 mi) from Ben Ahmed, 34 kilometres (21 mi) from Settat, 32 kilometres (20 mi) south of Casablanca, 196 kilometres (122 mi) from Marrakesh, and 90 kilometres (56 mi) from El Jadida.
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]
References
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<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedcensus2014 - ↑ "Recensement général de la population et de l'habitat de 2004". Haut-commissariat au Plan, Lavieeco.com. Archived from the original on 24 July 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120724191316/http://www.lavieeco.com/documents_officiels/Recensement%20population.pdf. Retrieved 21 June 2012.
- ↑ Stein, D. (2000-11-28). "Views of mental illness in Morocco: Western medicine meets the traditional symbolic". Canadian Medical Association Journal 163 (11): 1468–1470. ISSN 0820-3946. PMID 11192655.
- ↑ Corfield, Justin (2013). "Morocco". in Scull, Andrew. Cultural Sociology of Mental Illness: An A-to-Z Guide. SAGE Publishing. pp. 555. ISBN 9781483388991.
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