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Maarif in Semitic languages relates to the basal root ARF (West, Plan, Goal, Fortune, Knowledge) it also may refer to one of these places: Maârif , arrondissement of Casablanca, Morocco
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.
Casablanca-Settat (Arabic: الدار البيضاء - سطات, romanized: ad-dār al-bayḍāʾ - siṭṭāt) is one of the twelve administrative regions of Morocco. It covers an area of 20,166 km 2 and recorded a population of 6,861,739 in the 2014 Moroccan census, [1] 69% of which lived in urban areas. [2] The capital of the region is ...
The Central Market was the most important marketplace in Casablanca's European ville nouvelle. The Moroccan nationalist resistance fighter Muhammad Zarqtuni bombed the Central Market on December 24, 1953, after French forces forced Sultan Muhammad V into exile on August 20, 1953—which was Eid al-Adha .
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]
Casablanca Finance City Tower: Casablanca 136 metres (446 ft) 26 2019 Commercial Office The tallest skyscraper in Morocco since 2019 [6] 5: BCP Tower: Casablanca 120 metres (390 ft) 27 2023 Commercial Office Headquarters of the Banque Centrale Populaire. [7] [8] 6: Casablanca Twin Center (East) Casablanca 115 metres (377 ft) 28 1999 Commercial ...
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.