Mazagan
Mazagan see El Jadida , Morocco.
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Moroccan City of El Jadida on UNESCO's World Heritage List
Newspaper article from: Al Bawaba; 8/25/2005; 117 words
; The Moroccan city of El Jadida recently appeared on the UNESCO's...formerly under the name Mazagan and then El Jadida, the city is located in the center...the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. EL Jadida (Mazagan) was built by the Portuguese...
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At least 50 die in Morocco jail fire
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 11/2/2002; 341 words
; EL JADIDA, Morocco: Fire ripped through an overcrowded...outskirts of the Atlantic coast city of El Jadida, was not immediately known, a communication...the injured, the ministry official said. El Jadida is about 170 kilometres south of the capital...
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Cooperation between France and Morocco in education
Newspaper article from: Al Bawaba; 9/8/2005; 91 words
; ...Montpellier and Marseilles) and schools from Moroccan cities (Agadir, Al Hoceima, El Jadida, Marrakech and Tangier-Tetouan), academicians from the schools in Nantes and El Jadida will meet in a series of workshops in mid-September and October. Montpellier...
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DEATH BLAZE BLAME.(News)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland); 11/3/2002; 24 words
; A SHORT circuit is believed to have caused the fire that killed 50 people when it raged through the prison in El Jadida on the northern coast of Morocco.
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Moroccan crash kills 17 on way to wedding
Newspaper article from: Charleston Daily Mail; 9/1/1998; ; 57 words
; EL JADIDA, Morocco - A pickup truck carrying relatives to a village wedding collided with another truck, killing 17 of...the pickup truck and weren't hurt, the Opinion newspaper reported Monday. The accident took place Saturday in El Jadida.
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Two missing off Moroccan shores following shipwreck
Newspaper article from: Al Bawaba; 11/19/2002; 75 words
; ...reportedly missing after a Panama ship wrecked off the shores of El Jadida, some 200 kilometers south of the capital Rabat, on the Moroccan...while nine other crewmembers managed to reach the shores of El Jadida, according to Maghreb Arabe Presse Monday.The eleven crewmembers...
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PRISON FIRE KILLS 49 INMATES.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 11/1/2002; 100 words
; ...agency. The overnight blaze occurred at the Sidi Moussa jail in El Jadida, 112 miles south of the capital of Rabat, the MAP agency said...MAP reported. The prison, which rests on the outskirts of El Jadida, was built for 1,000 prisoners but now houses 1,313, penitentiary...
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18th edition of Antifit tournament to start
Newspaper article from: Al Bawaba; 8/17/2005; 99 words
; ...Antifit Tournament will take place from 20 to 21 August in El Jadida stadium. On August 20, Morocco commemorates the exile of the...organized by the RAC club in conjunction with the town council of El Jadida, will also serve as homage to Abdelhak Rizkallah, the president...
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Conference on history of Morocco and Portugal
Newspaper article from: Al Bawaba; 3/19/2005; 141 words
; ...and March 23 in two different locations, in Casablanca and in El Jadida. Emarrakech reports that this event was initiated by the Hassan...University in Casablanca, the Chouadb Doukkali University in El Jadida and the University of Lisbon. Several academicians, historians...
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Construction of viaduct on Oum Rebia River
Newspaper article from: Al Bawaba; 8/7/2005; 83 words
; ...Rbia river is planned until 2006 within the framework of third phase of the motorway Casablanca- El Jadida, which will connect Tnine-Chtouka to El Jadida. The viaduct, which will be the first of its kind on a national scale, is planned to be 449 meters...
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El Jadida
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names
El Jadida, Morocco Mazagan, al‐Brija al‐Jadīda ‘The New’ in Arabic. Developed around a Portuguese fort from 1502, it was known as Mazagan after a tribe, the Mazg'anna, that had once lived in the area. In...
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El Jadida
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...are exported from the port. It was seized by the Portuguese in 1502 and after 1541 was the only place Portugal held in Morocco. Repeatedly besieged by the Moroccans, it was finally captured by them in 1769. The city was formerly called Mazagan.
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