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Oujda () is a city in eastern Morocco with an estimated population of half a million inhabitants. The city is located about 15 kilometers west of Algeria and about 60 kilometers south of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the capital of the Oriental Region. It is the birthplace of current President of Algeria Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

Oujda is home to Angads Airport, which receives many international flights coming from Europe.

Oujda is also home to Mohammed I University, a French language, English language and Arabic language language and technology university.

There is some evidence of a settlement during the Roman occupation, but this seems to have been under the control of Berber peoples rather than RomansSee: Ahmed Siraj, L'Image de la Tingitane. L'historiographie arabe medievale et l'Antiquite nord-africaine. École Française de Rome, 1995 (ISBN 2-7283-0317-7), pp 589-595 discusses the archeological evidence.. The modern city was founded in 994 by Ziri ibn Atiyya, king of the Zenata tribesas a place of refuge, according to Ibn Khaldun. Further additions were made in 1048. The city was rebuilt in 13th century by sultan Abou Youssef. The France twice occupied it (in 1844 and again in 1859). Also to the west is Isli, which saw a major Franco-Moroccan battle in 1844. Once Morocco was occupied by the France, Oujda was used as a military base to control eastern Morocco.

The city grew up along the roads that were built and owes much of its present form to the French.

The Moroccan border with Algeria is just east of Oujda, on the other side of the border is the Algerian town of Maghnia. The state of the border crossing depends on relations between the two countries which are often strained.

Since 2006, the city has been twinned with Trowbridge in England due to the huge number of diasporans most of whom originate from villages close to Oujda. Trowbridge has the largest Moroccan community in the UK outside London. Notes Town twinning

Trowbridge, UK (since 2006)