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5 unusual facts about Morocco


Joseph Sadi-Lecointe

Between 1925 and 1927 he returned to military service as a volunteer, taking part in the Rif War in Morocco, afterwards returning to his job as chief test pilot with Nieuport Delage.

Luis del Mármol Carvajal

This may explain their settlements and affinity with the Merinid and after the Wattasids dynasty, (وطاسيون waṭāsīyūn), ruling Fez, until, after 1554, the Saadi´s rulers, (Arabic: سعديون), from Tagmadert, at the Draa river valley, near Tidzi, near Zagora, conquered the town.

René Maheu

He was a cultural attaché in London (1936-1939) and after teaching in Morocco (1940–1942) during World War II, he occupied a managerial post in the France-Afrique press agency in Algiers, before joining the Executive Office of the Resident-General in Rabat.

Roches Noires

Roches Noires, Morocco, an arrondissement of eastern Casablanca, in the Aïn Sebaâ - Hay Mohammadi district of the Grand Casablanca region of Morocco.

Skhirat-Témara

Skhirat-Témara is a prefecture of Morocco.


480th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing

At the time, the group was under the command of Colonel Jack Roberts and assigned to the Northwest African Coastal Air Force under the command of Air Vice-Marshal Hugh Lloyd, but they operated under the control of USN FAW-15 at Port Lyautey, French Morocco, now Kenitra, Morocco.

Ain Orma

Ain Orma is a small town and rural commune in Meknès-El Menzeh Prefecture of the Meknès-Tafilalet region of Morocco.

Ait Bazza

Ait Bazza is a small town and rural commune in Boulemane Province of the Fès-Boulemane region of Morocco.

Al Bahraoyine

Al Bahraoyine is a small coastal town bordering the Strait of Gibraltar and it is a rural commune in Fahs Anjra Prefecture of the Tangier-Tétouan region of Morocco.

Al Khalfia

Al Khalfia is a town and rural commune in Béni Mellal Province of the Tadla-Azilal region of Morocco.

Aqesri

Aqesri is a small town and rural commune in Agadir-Ida Ou Tanane Prefecture of the Souss-Massa-Drâa region of Morocco.

Arbaa Taourirt

Arbaa Taourirt is a small town and rural commune in Al Hoceïma Province of the Taza-Al Hoceima-Taounate region of Morocco.

Argan

The Argan (Argania spinosa) is a species of tree endemic to the calcareous semi-desert Sous valley of southwestern Morocco and to the Algerian region of Tindouf in the western Mediterranean region.

Basketball at the 2005 Mediterranean Games

Morocco: Adil Baba (77), Nabil Bakkass (79), Mounir Bouhelal (79), Jaouad Dahbi (85), Alaeddine El Asli (84), Zakaria El Masbahi (79), Marouane El Mouttalibi (82), Mohamed Hjira (81), M.F. Houari Bassim (77), Mustapha Khalfi (80), Mohamed Mouak (78), Reda Rhalimi (82)

Bigoudine

Bigoudine is a small town and rural commune in Taroudant Province of the Souss-Massa-Drâa region of Morocco.

Cabalzarite

It has also been reported from the Aghbar mine in Ouarzazate Province, Morocco.

Diogo de Boitaca

His first name is only mentioned once : in 1515 on the list of the members of the ill-fated expedition to São João da Mamora (present-day Mehdya in Morocco) where the Portuguese lost 4,000 men.

El Koudia El Beida

El Koudia El Beida is a small town and rural commune in Taroudant Province of the Souss-Massa-Drâa region of Morocco.

El Maader El Kabir

El Maader El Kabir is a small town and rural commune in Tiznit Province of the Souss-Massa-Drâa region of Morocco.

Fatima Aouam

Fatima Aouam (born December 16, 1959) is a former female middle distance runner from Morocco Settat Guisser.

Fotia

:The 3rd single, the music video for the single was filmed in Morocco for a TV-special aired by Mega Channel in early 1990.

France–Morocco relations

After the troubled periods of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, France again showed a strong interest in Morocco in the 1830s, as a possible extension of her sphere of influence in the Maghreb, after Algeria and Tunisia.

Francisco Gómez-Jordana, 1st Count of Jordana

He was born in Madrid, the son of an officer who went on to become a Lieutenant General and one of the High Military Commissioners of Spain in Morocco.

Frank H. Buck

In 1900, together with Burton E. Green (1868-1965), Charles A. Canfield (1848-1913), Max Whittier (1867–1928), William F. Herrin (1854-1927), Henry E. Huntington (1850-1927), William G. Kerckhoff (1856–1929), W.S. Porter and Frank H. Balch, known as the Amalgated Oil Company, he purchased Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas from Henry Hammel and Andrew H. Denker and renamed it Morocco Junction.

Haddada, Morocco

Haddada is a small town and rural commune in Kénitra Province of the Gharb-Chrarda-Béni Hssen region of Morocco.

Harry Aubrey de Vere Maclean

He visited the forbidden city of Tafilalt, and eventually became commander of the Sultan of Morocco's Army.

Hilala

Hilala is a small town and rural commune in Chtouka-Aït Baha Province of the Souss-Massa-Drâa region of Morocco.

Ida Ou Moumen

Ida Ou Moumen is a small town and rural commune in Taroudant Province of the Souss-Massa-Drâa region of Morocco.

Ida Ougoummad

Ida Ougoummad is a small town and rural commune in Taroudant Province of the Souss-Massa-Drâa region of Morocco.

Imgdal

Imgdal is a small town and rural commune in Al Haouz Province of the Marrakesh-Tensift-El Haouz region of Morocco.

Jean-Paul Bertrand-Demanes

Jean-Paul Bertrand-Demanes (born 13 May 1952 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a former football goalkeeper from France, who earned eleven international caps for the French national team during the 1970s and was part of the French team in the 1978 FIFA World Cup.

Jorge Sampaio

His maternal grandmother Sara Bensliman Bensaúde, who died in 1976, was a of Sephardi Jew from Morocco of Portuguese origin, and his maternal grandfather Fernando Branco (1880–1940) was a Naval Officer of the Portuguese Navy and later the Foreign Minister of Portugal; Sampaio himself is agnostic, and does not consider himself a Jew.

La Caixa

At the end of 2007, La Caixa had 5,480 branches, of which 5,468 are located throughout Spain and two operating abroad (Warsaw, Poland and Bucharest, Romania), and 10 representative offices in Germany, Belgium, China, France, Italy, Morocco, Portugal and the United Kingdom.

Laattaouia Ech-Chaybia

Laattaouia Ech-Chaybia is a small town and rural commune in El Kelâat Es-Sraghna Province of the Marrakesh-Tensift-El Haouz region of Morocco.

Lgharbia

Lgharbia is a small town and rural commune in El Jadida Province of the Doukkala-Abda region of Morocco.

Megasis lesurella

It was described by D. Lucas in 1932, and is known from Morocco (including Aïn Leuh and Ifrane).

Mirleft

Mirleft is a small town and rural commune in Tiznit Province of the Souss-Massa-Drâa region of Morocco.

Moroccan Arabic

In the troubled and autocratic Morocco of the 70s (known as the years of lead), the legendary Nass El Ghiwane band wrote beautiful and allusive lyrics in Moroccan Arabic which were very appealing to the youth even in other Maghreb countries.

Nessbeal

Nabil Sahli better known by his stage name Nessbeal (born in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, on 16 August 1978) is a French rapper of Moroccan origin.

Nzalat Laadam

Nzalat Laadam is a small town and rural commune in El Kelâat Es-Sraghna Province of the Marrakesh-Tensift-El Haouz region of Morocco.

Oued El Makhazine

Oued El Makhazine is a small town and rural commune in Kénitra Province of the Gharb-Chrarda-Béni Hssen region of Morocco.

Ouijjane

Ouijjane is a small town and rural commune in Tiznit Province of the Souss-Massa-Drâa region of Morocco.

Oulad Aamer Tizmarine

Oulad Aamer Tizmarine is a small town and rural commune in El Kelâat Es-Sraghna Province of the Marrakesh-Tensift-El Haouz region of Morocco.

Oulad Said L'Oued

Oulad Said L'Oued is a town and rural commune in Béni Mellal Province of the Tadla-Azilal region of Morocco.

Oulad Yaacoub

Oulad Yaacoub is a small town and rural commune in El Kelâat Es-Sraghna Province of the Marrakesh-Tensift-El Haouz region of Morocco.

Ouled Cebbah

Ouled Cebbah is a small town and rural commune in Settat Province of the Chaouia-Ouardigha region of Morocco.

RLEF Euro Med Challenge

All three of these teams, however, were promoted to the European Cup in 2009, so three new teams were selected for the 2009 installment: Morocco, Belgium and Catalonia.

Sidi Dahbi

Sidi Dahbi is a small town and rural commune in Settat Province of the Chaouia-Ouardigha region of Morocco.

Tadrart

Tadrart, a village in the Souss-Massa-Drâa region of Morocco

Tamadroust

Tamadroust is a small town and rural commune in Settat Province of the Chaouia-Ouardigha region of Morocco.

Taoughilt

Taoughilt is a small town and rural commune in Sidi Kacem Province of the Gharb-Chrarda-Béni Hssen region of Morocco.

United States Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs

The Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs is responsible for United States relations with the countries of the Middle East and all of the countries of North Africa bordering the Mediterranean Sea from Egypt to Morocco.

Yemenia Flight 626

The bodies of the Moroccans were sent to Morocco, while the Ethiopian was sent to Addis Ababa.

Zaggota

Zaggota is a small town and rural commune in Sidi Kacem Province of the Gharb-Chrarda-Béni Hssen region of Morocco.

Zaouiat Saiss

Zaouiat Saiss is a small town and rural commune in El Jadida Province of the Doukkala-Abda region of Morocco.


see also

Ain Blal

Ain Blal is a small town and rural commune in Settat Province of the Chaouia-Ouardigha region of Morocco.

Ait Ouqabli

Ait Ouqabli is a small town and rural commune in Azilal Province of the Tadla-Azilal region of Morocco.

AS Douanes

From 1969 to the 1980s, Racing de Casablanca of Morocco was renamed Association des Douanes Marocains.

Chami

Douar Ain Chami, settlement in northwestern Morocco somewhat to the north of the city of Meknes

Cristian Jeandet

In 2007 he had a spell in Morocco with Wydad Casablanca followed by a spell with Venezuelan top league club Atlético Club Mineros de Guayana.

Dar Chaffai

Dar Chaffai is a small town and rural commune in Settat Province of the Chaouia-Ouardigha region of Morocco.

Elkanah Settle

Dryden was obviously aimed at, and he co-operated with John Crowne and Thomas Shadwell in an abusive pamphlet entitled "Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco" (1674), to which Settle replied in "Some Notes and Observations on the Empress of Morocco revised" (1674).

Estrella María Benzo Blas

With 21 years old, Estrella debuted in mid-2006 with her single "Qué Me Puede Quedar", in collaboration with the renowned Moroccan violinist Faiçal Kourrisc.

Expulsion of the Jews from Portugal

Most Portuguese Jews, thousands, would eventually leave the country to Amsterdam, Thessaloniki, Constantinople (Istanbul), France, Morocco, Brazil, Curaçao and the Antilles.

Fraser Tranter

In May 1998, a win in the Farmer's Walk helped Fraser towards a 2nd place finish in the UK Docklands Strongman Challenge, and this in turn led to an invite to the 1998 World's Strongest Man in Morocco.

Hassan Kettani

He was imprisoned for alleged connections to the 2003 Casablanca bombings, Kettani was pardoned vy Mohammed VI eight years later after efforts by his lawyer, human rights groups and Islamists success in Morocco's parliament.

Ida Ou Gougmar

Ida Ou Gougmar is a small town and rural commune in Tiznit Province of the Souss-Massa-Drâa region of Morocco.

Imaouen

Imaouen is a small town and rural commune in Taroudant Province of the Souss-Massa-Drâa region of Morocco.

Khmis Ksiba

Khmis Ksiba is a small town and rural commune in El Jadida Province of the Doukkala-Abda region of Morocco.

La Fattoria 3

Barbara D'Urso confirmed to run, now an expert presenter of reality, while on location in Morocco has sent the actor Francesco Salvi.

Lamhadi

Lamhadi is a small town and rural commune in Taroudant Province of the Souss-Massa-Drâa region of Morocco.

Luis Bravo de Acuña

In 1609 he commanded four galleys that accompanied a ship carrying Muley Xeque, exiled king of Fez, Morocco and Sous.

M'Zem Sanhaja

M'Zem Sanhaja is a small town and rural commune in El Kelâat Es-Sraghna Province of the Marrakesh-Tensift-El Haouz region of Morocco.

Maghreb Championships

North African Championship, a former football competition between French Algeria, French Morocco and French Tunisia

Morocco Temple

Shirley Temple was one of numerous celebrities who appeared at the Morocco Temple.

Oulad Youssef

Oulad Youssef is a town and rural commune in Béni Mellal Province of the Tadla-Azilal region of Morocco.

Ras El Ain Chaouia

Ras El Ain Chaouia is a small town and rural commune in Settat Province of the Chaouia-Ouardigha region of Morocco.

Sidi Ali Ben Hamdouche

Sidi Ali Ben Hamdouche is a small town and rural commune in El Jadida Province of the Doukkala-Abda region of Morocco.

Sidi Boubker El Haj

Sidi Boubker El Haj is a small town and rural commune in Kénitra Province of the Gharb-Chrarda-Béni Hssen region of Morocco.

Sidi Dahmane

Sidi Dahmane is a small town and rural commune in Taroudant Province of the Souss-Massa-Drâa region of Morocco.

Sidi El Hattab

Sidi El Hattab is a small town and rural commune in El Kelâat Es-Sraghna Province of the Marrakesh-Tensift-El Haouz region of Morocco.

Sidi Mohamed Lahmar

Sidi Mohamed Lahmar is a small town and rural commune in Kénitra Province of the Gharb-Chrarda-Béni Hssen region of Morocco.

Tissaf

Tissaf is a small town and rural commune in Boulemane Province of the Fès-Boulemane region of Morocco.

Yusuf ibn Tashfin

Yusuf was an effective general and administrator, as evidenced by his ability to organize and maintain the loyalty of the hardened desert warriors and the territory of Abu Bakr, as well as his ability to expand the empire, crossing the Atlas Mountains onto the plains of Morocco, reaching the Mediterranean and capturing Fez in 1075, Tangier in 1079, Tlemcen in 1080, and Ceuta in 1083, as well as Algiers, Ténès and Oran in 1082-83.