Hyayna

Spanish historian Luis del Marmol Carvajal, who traveled the country in the mid-sixteenth century (precisely in 1540), spoke of a rich agricultural tribe which had 25 villages and provided four thousand combatants to the Saadi dynasty.

In the seventeenth century written mention for the first time the word "Hyayna". The installation of this tribe northeast of the city of Fez seems to be in the middle of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century, made up of Hilalian Arab guich tribes.[3] Initially allied with the Zayyanids, they rallied to the Saadian army, and it seems they have accompanied the Saadi dynasty in their conquest of Morocco against the Wattasids, conquering Fez in 1549. Indeed, in order to close the corridor of Taza to Ottoman invaders from Algeria, Saadians implemented guich tribes (tribal soldiers) in this militarily strategic area to defend Fez. The Hyayna contributed to the Battle of Wadi al-Laban against the Ottomans and the Battle of al-Kasr al-Kabir against the Portuguese, playing a leading role in Moroccan politics from the 16th century.[3] During the 'Alawid era, the Hyayna participated in the Battle of Tetouan of the Hispano-Moroccan War of 1859. In 1912, following the Treaty of Fes, the Hyayna attacked Fes along with other tribes.[3]

• Morocco
• Fez