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Americans, Canadians. Moroccan Americans (Arabic: المغاربة في الولايات المتحدة, romanized: al-Maghāribah fī al-Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah) are Americans citizens who are of Moroccan descent, either fully or partially. It is also applied to Americans who hold dual citizenship in America and Morocco.
North African Americans are Americans with origins in the region of North Africa. This group includes Americans of Algerian, Egyptian, Libyan, Moroccan, and Tunisian descent. People from North Africa have been in the United States since the sixteenth century. Some of the early explorers who accompanied the Spanish on their expeditions in the ...
American people of Moroccan descent. This category page lists notable citizens of the United States of Moroccan ethnic or national origin or descent, whether partial or full.
Embassy of the US, Rabat. Relations between the Kingdom of Morocco and the United States of America date back to the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) and specifically since 1777 when the sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah became the first monarch to help the United States. Morocco remains one of America's oldest and closest allies in the ...
Genetic studies on Moroccans. Human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroups in Morocco and the world. [1] Moroccan genetics encompasses the genetic history of the people of Morocco, and the genetic influence of this ancestry on world populations. It has been heavily influenced by geography. In prehistoric times, the Sahara desert to the south and the ...
Moroccan diaspora. The Moroccan diaspora (Arabic: الجالية المغربية), part of the wider Arab diaspora, consists of emigrants from Morocco and their descendants. An estimated five million Moroccans live abroad, [9] with the majority of the diaspora being located in Western Europe, and especially France. Five million Moroccans live ...
The Moroccan–American Treaty of Peace and Friendship, also known as the Treaty of Marrakesh, [1] was a bilateral agreement signed in 1786 that established diplomatic and commercial relations between the United States and Morocco. [2] It was the first treaty between the U.S. and an African, Muslim nation, and initiated what as of 2024 remains ...
Moroccans live mainly in the north and west portions of Morocco. However, they prefer living in the more fertile regions near the Mediterranean Sea. The Arab population of Morocco is a result of the inflow of nomadic Arab tribes from the Arabian Peninsula since the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb in the 7th century with a major wave in the 11th ...