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unusual facts about King of Morocco



Adriaen Matham

In 1640 Matham was a member of a Dutch embassy to the king of Morocco, Mohammed esh Sheikh es Seghir, led by Antonius de Liedekerke.

Bernard Brocas

It has been claimed that he captured and chopped off the head of a King of Morocco, but the story seems to be apocryphal.

History of Morocco

Gradual political reforms in the 1990s resulted in the establishment of a bicameral legislature in 1997, and with the death of King Hassan II of Morocco in 1999, the more liberal-minded Crown Prince Sidi Mohammed, who assumed the title of Mohammed VI, took the throne.


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Aghmat

Subsequent actions became one of the major irritants between Boujane's superior, the powerful Pasha of Marrakech T'hami El Glaoui, and the King of Morocco Mohammed V, which eventually led to the king's brief overthrow.

Cansino family

Jacob Cansino I served as an interpreter at Oran, a Spanish colony in northwestern Africa, under Charles V, until 1556, when he was sent as an ambassador to the king of Morocco.

Kingdom of Sus

Traditionally, under the Alaouite dynasty, the Kingdom of Sus was one of the four "States of the King of Morocco", along with the Kingdom of Marrakech, the Kingdom of Fez and the Kingdom of Tafilalet.

Leila Shenna

She is the cousin of Malika Oufkir, the writer of Stolen Lives: Twenty Years In A Desert Jail, an account of the failed 1972 assassination attempt on the King of Morocco by her father (and Leila's uncle), General Mohamed Oufkir.