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The term also applies more broadly to any people who share a common Moroccan culture and identity, as well as those who natively speak Moroccan Arabic or other languages of Morocco. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] In addition to the approximately 37 million residents of Morocco, there is a large Moroccan diaspora .
The Kaiser's dramatic intervention in Morocco in March 1905 in support of Moroccan independence became a turning point on the road to the First World War. The international Algeciras Conference of 1906 formalized France's "special position" and entrusted policing of Morocco jointly to France and Spain.
Elie Azagury (1918–2009), Moroccan architect, considered the first Moroccan modernist architect; Bettina Banoun, Norwegian barrister and businesswoman; Alain J. P. Belda, Canadian-Moroccan businessman, former CEO of Alcoa; Isaac Benayon Sabba, Brazilian entrepreneur, founder of the IB Sabbá Ltda. group and Petroleo Sabbá S.A.
Morocco, [d] officially the Kingdom of Morocco, [e] is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.It overlooks the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to the east, and the disputed territory of Western Sahara to the south.
The area of present-day Morocco has been thought to have been inhabited since Paleolithic times, sometime between 90,000 and 190,000 BC, but that is no longer the case after the discovery of a 300,000 years Homo sapiens, and instead, it is now suggested that it has been inhabited since primordial times by humans by the same evidence. [5]
In 985 [12] he returned to Morocco with Fatimid support, but that same year he was defeated by another Umayyad general sent by al-Mansur and then assassinated on the way to Cordoba. [7] This brought a final end to the Idrisid dynasty. The Umayyads kept control over northern Morocco until their caliphate's collapse in the early 11th century.
In addition, young people synthesize the Moroccan spirit with influences from around the world (blues, rock, metal, reggae, Moroccan rap, etc.). Ouds in a shop in Marrakesh Tarab al-āla [ ar ] ( طرب الآلة lit. "joy of the instrument") is a celebrated musical style in Morocco, a result of a large migration of Muslims from Valencia to ...
For example, in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, giving children Berber names was banned. [190] [191] [192] In Morocco, the Arabic language and Arab culture occupied a superior position in official and social domains. The Arabist ideology was popular among Moroccan society, as well as within bureaucratic cadres and the political parties. [193]