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  2. Casablanca - Wikipedia

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    Casablanca (Arabic: الدار البيضاء, romanized: al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, lit. 'the White House', IPA: [adˈdaːru ɫbajdˤaːʔ]) is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre.

  3. History of Casablanca - Wikipedia

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    The French government described Casablanca as a "laboratory of urbanism," [30] and the French urbanist Michel Écochard—director of the Service de l'Urbanisme, Casablanca's urban planning office at the time—featured prominently in the film, discussing how challenges such as internal migration and rapid urbanization were being handled in ...

  4. United Nations Square (Casablanca) - Wikipedia

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    As the European ville nouvelle, or "new city," expended eastward of the square, the square evolved from a marketplace to a contact point between the European city and the Casablanca medina, which French colonists described as the "ville indigène." [6] The Tramway winds in front of the BMCI building, through United Nations Square.

  5. Architecture of Casablanca - Wikipedia

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    The oldest European structure in Casablanca was an abandoned prison allegedly built by the Portuguese, arcades of which now decorate the Arab League Park. [ 16 ] The Church of San Buenaventura (now the Buenaventura Cultural Center ) was built in the medina by the Spanish community of Casablanca in 1890.

  6. Category:Casablanca - Wikipedia

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    People from Casablanca (1 C, 111 P) S. Sport in Casablanca (5 C, 32 P) ... Casablanca Finance City Tower; Central Market (Casablanca) D. Darga (band) Derb Moulay ...

  7. Village People cop Victor Willis blasts Casablanca Records ...

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    Victor Willis — best known as Village People’s policeman, and the co-writer of the group’s biggest hits including “YMCA,” “Macho Man,” “In the Navy,” and “Go West” — took ...

  8. Royal Palace of Casablanca - Wikipedia

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    The Royal Palace of Casablanca is the main royal residence of the King of Morocco in Casablanca, Morocco. Located in the Hubous neighborhood, it was built in the 1920s on a design by the brothers Louis-Paul and Félix-Joseph Pertuzio, with garden landscaping by Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier . [ 1 ]

  9. Marcelin Flandrin - Wikipedia

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    Marcelin Flandrin also created many nude orientalist postcards of Moroccan women in the Bousbir, or quartier réservé, a colonial brothel-city in Casablanca. Flandrin was influential in creating the stereotype of the "Arab African" prostitute: young, brown, exotic looking (to the European eye) topless and wearing robes or kaftans. Most of the ...