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Ksar el Kebir
Ksar el Kebir , city (1994 pop. 107,065), N Morocco. The name also appears as Alcazarquivir and Al Qasr al Kabir. Near the city on Aug. 4, 1578, the Moroccans soundly defeated the Portuguese. King Sebastian of Portugal had invaded Morocco in support of a pretender to the Moroccan throne. Abd... Read more |
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El Jadida
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 1821 it was settled by Moroccan Jews who gave it the Arabic... Read more |
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Jose Zorrilla y Moral
Zorrilla y Moral, José (1817–93), Spanish poet and dramatist of the Romantic movement. His best known play is Don Juan Tenorio (1844), which added yet another version to the numerous interpretations of the Don Juan legend. It is still performed in Spanish theatres, traditionally on All... Read more |
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Elazig
Elâziğ, Turkey Mezere Founded as a military garrison called Mezere from mazra᾽a ‘hamlet’ in the mid‐19th century by the autocratic Abd al‐'Aziz (or Abdul Aziz) (1830–76), Ottoman Sultan (1861–76). The name was changed in 1862 to Mamurat... Read more |
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Allah
Allah , [Arab.,=the God]. Derived from an old Semitic root refering to the Divine and used in the Canaanite El, the Mesopotamian ilu, and the biblical Elohim, the word Allah is used by all Arabic-speaking Muslims, Christians, Jews, and others. Allah, as a deity, was probably known in... Read more |
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Bab el Mandeb
BAB AL-MANDAB The narrow waterway separating Asia and Africa. Because of its place on the sea-lanes between Europe and the Indian Ocean and points east, the Bab al-Mandab straits have been assigned considerable strategic importance over the centuries, particularly with the building of the... Read more |
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Al Aziziyah
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Jamal al-Din al-Afghani
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Nasir al-Din al-tusi
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