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It is bounded to the north by boulevard d'Anfa and Mohamed Zerktouni, to the east by avenue 2 Mars and Nador, to the south by the Casablanca urban highway, and to the west by boulevard Ghandi and Route d'El Jadida. [2] It shares the same name as its neighborhood, Maârif, which is located in the center of the city.
It was used by the Portuguese, who called it Casablanca, as a military fortress from 1515. Anfa is today to the west of central Casablanca, and was the name of one of the city's two airports before being closed in 2007. The region around Casablanca is named Casa-Anfa. The neighborhood of Anfa is the most upper-class and westernized in the city.
Morocco also claims the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta, Melilla and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, and several small Spanish-controlled islands off its coast. It has a population of approximately 37 million. Islam is both the official and predominant religion, while Arabic and Berber are the official languages.
Casablanca-Settat is located on the Atlantic coast. It borders the regions of Rabat-Salé-Kénitra to the northeast, Béni Mellal-Khénifra to the southeast, and Marrakesh-Safi to the south. Part of the border with Marrakesh-Safi follows the course of the Oum Er-Rbia River , which flows northwest and empties into the Atlantic at Azemmour . [ 4 ]
The 1906 Algeciras Conference gave the French holding company la Compagnie Marocaine permission to build a modern port in Casablanca. [4] The French bombardment of Casablanca the following year destroyed much of the city, which at the time consisted of the medina, the mellah (Jewish quarter), and an area known as Tnaker. [ 3 ]
Al Fida – Mers Sultan (Arabic: الفداء - مرس السلطان) is a district of Casablanca, in the Casablanca-Settat region of Morocco. The district covers an area of 17.9 square kilometres (6.9 square miles) and as of 2004 had 332,682 inhabitants.
The Liberty Building (Arabic: عمارة الحرية, French: Immeuble Liberté), also known as "17 Stories" (17 étages or dix-sept étages), is a 17-story residential tower in Casablanca, Morocco. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was designed by Léonard Morandi and built between 1949 and 1951. [ 4 ]
Residence of the Spanish High Commissioner in Tétouan, ca. 1920; absorbed in the late 1950s into the Royal Palace of Tétouan French and Spanish protectorates in Morocco from 1912 until 1956. The administrative regime of the Protectorate is derived from the concept of protectorate itself, with a formal duality of authorities.