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Casablanca hosted the Casablanca Conference-called even "Anfa Conference"- in 1943 (from January 14 to January 24), in which Churchill and Roosevelt discussed the progress of the war. Casablanca was the site of a large American air base, which was the staging area for all American aircraft for the European Theater of Operations during World War II.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Casablanca, Morocco This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
The Casablanca Uprisings of 1952 (Arabic: انتفاضة الدار البيضاء 1952) were a violently repressed anti-colonial popular movement that took place on the 7th and 8th of December 1952 in Casablanca, Morocco in response to the French assassination of the Tunisian labor unionist Farhat Hached in Tunis on 5 December.
Casablanca also hosts the primary naval base for the Royal Moroccan Navy. Casablanca is a significant financial centre, ranking 54th globally in the September 2023 Global Financial Centres Index rankings, between Brussels and Rome. [4] The Casablanca Stock Exchange is Africa's third-largest in terms of market capitalization, as of December 2022 ...
Military history of Casablanca (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "History of Casablanca" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
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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.
The Pacha of Casablanca, Abu Bakr Ibn Abi Zaid as-Slawi, captive on the French cruiser Galilée, which bombed Casablanca from 5–7 August 1907. Over three days of bombs raining down from the French warships, followed by carnage and pillaging from troops on the ground, what had been a prosperous city of 30,000 inhabitants was transformed into a ...