Tiflet

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Tiflet is a town in northwest Morocco westerly of Meknes and easterly of Rabat.[1] Tiflet is in a region of Morocco that is rich with ancient history including settlement by Phoenicians and Romans during the first millennium BC. The nearest such major settlements are in Rabat and Volubilis.[2]

Tiflet is a town that was served by workers of the United States Peace Corps until the attack on America of September 11, 2001.[3] The Peace Corps workers had been assisting local women in a beekeeping cooperative, until the U.S. government evacuated the Peace Corps personnel for concerns over their safety.[3]

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  1. ^ The Times Atlas of the World, Eighth comprehensive edition, Random House (1990)
  2. ^ C.Michael Hogan, Volubilis, Megalithic Portal, ed. A. Burnham (2007)
  3. ^ a b New York Times, retrieved Feb 15, 2008
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