Tabor (Morocco)

Tabor was the designation given to an irregular unit of indigenous infantry and cavalry recruited in Morocco during the period of French and Spanish intervention and occupation (1908-56).

A tabor was a formation of three or four goums. A goum in this case was the Moroccan equivalent to a company and a tabor would thereby be equivalent to a battalion. Larger groups of tabors, equivalent to regiments or brigades, were also employed.