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Timeline of Casablanca

Summary

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Casablanca, Morocco.

Prior to 20th century edit

  • 1st C. CE - "Anfus" created by Romans as a port
  • 11th C. CE - Anfa founded by Zanata Berbers. The word Anfa means the hill in the local amazigh dialect .[1]
  • 1468 - Anfa sacked by Portuguese forces.[2][3]
  • 1770 - City walls rebuilt by the Sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah also called Mohammed III (approximate date).[1]
  • 1830 - Port re-opens to commerce.[2]
  • 1900 - Population: 20,000.[1]

20th century edit

21st century edit

 
Satellite view of Casablanca, circa 2005

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f Cohen 2008.
  2. ^ a b c d Miller 2005.
  3. ^ a b c d Britannica 1910.
  4. ^ a b c d e Susan Gilson Miller (2013). "Chronology". History of Modern Morocco. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-81070-8.
  5. ^ Lola Souad (1993). "Morocco". In Robert Wedgeworth (ed.). World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services (3rd ed.). American Library Association. p. 585+. ISBN 978-0-8389-0609-5.
  6. ^ "Kingdom of Morocco". International Encyclopedia of the Stock Market. Fitzroy Dearborn. 1999. ISBN 978-1-884964-35-0.
  7. ^ Ceranka, Paweł; Szczepanik, Krzysztof (2020). Urzędy konsularne Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej 1918–1945. Informator archiwalny (in Polish). Warszawa: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych, Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych. p. 97. ISBN 978-83-65681-93-5.
  8. ^ "Movie Theaters in Casablanca, Morocco". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  9. ^ a b "Arbeitslager Casablanca". Bundesarchiv.de (in German). Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  10. ^ James G. Ryan and Leonard Schlup, ed. (2006). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of the 1940s. M.E. Sharpe. p. 436+. ISBN 978-0-7656-2107-8.
  11. ^ Muriel E. Chamberlain (1998). Longman Companion to European Decolonisation in the Twentieth Century. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-89744-6.
  12. ^ "On This Day", New York Times, retrieved 30 January 2015
  13. ^ "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
  14. ^ a b c d The State of African Cities 2014. United Nations Human Settlements Programme. 10 September 2015. ISBN 978-92-1-132598-0. Archived from the original on 10 September 2014.
  15. ^ "Casablanca (Morocco) -- Newspapers". Global Resources Network. Chicago, US: Center for Research Libraries. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  16. ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  17. ^ Ossman 1994.
  18. ^ United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division (1997). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1995 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 262–321. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  19. ^ Zakia Salime (28 May 2011). "Rapping the Revolution". Muftah.org.
  20. ^ a b c "Morocco Profile: Timeline". BBC News. 12 July 2011. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  21. ^ Petit Futé 2013.
  22. ^ "Table 8 - Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants", Demographic Yearbook – 2018, United Nations
  23. ^ "RECENSEMENT GENERAL DE LA POPULATION ET DE L'HABITAT 2014 Note de présentation des premiers résultats REGION DU GRAND CASABLANCA". www.hcp.ma.

This article incorporates information from the French Wikipedia.

Bibliography edit

in English edit

  • Leo Africanus; John Pory (1896), "Of Anfa a towne in Temesna", in Robert Brown (ed.), History and Description of Africa, vol. 2, London: Hakluyt Society, OCLC 2649691 (written in the 16th century)
  • "Casablanca" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 440.
  • "Al-Dar al-Bayda". Encyclopedia of Islam. Leiden: Brill. 1985.
  • Susan Ossman (1994). Picturing Casablanca: Portraits of Power in a Modern City. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-91431-5.
  • Mark Ellingham (2001), "Casablanca", Rough Guide to Morocco (6th ed.), London: Rough Guides, p. 299+, OL 24218635M
  • Jean-Louis Cohen; Monique Eleb (2003). Casablanca: colonial myths and architectural ventures. Monacelli Press. ISBN 978-1-58093-087-1.
  • Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; Dickson Eyoh, eds. (2003). "Casablanca, Morocco". Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century African History. Routledge. ISBN 0415234794.
  • James A. Miller (2005). "Casablanca". In Kevin Shillington (ed.). Encyclopedia of African History. Fitzroy Dearborn. p. 222. ISBN 978-1-135-45670-2.
  • Thomas K. Park; Aomar Boum (2006). "Casablanca". Historical Dictionary of Morocco (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6511-2.
  • Jean-Louis Cohen (2008). "Casablanca". The City in the Islamic World. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill. p. 1009+. ISBN 9789004162402.
  • Michael R.T. Dumper; Bruce E. Stanley, eds. (2008), "Casablanca", Cities of the Middle East and North Africa, Santa Barbara, US: ABC-CLIO, p. 114+

in French edit

  • Maurice de Périgny [in French] (1919). Au Maroc; Casablanca-Rabat-Meknes (in French). Paris P. Roger.
  • Albert Charton (1924). "Casablanca". Annales de géographie (in French). 33 (183): 303–307. doi:10.3406/geo.1924.9684 – via Persee.fr.  

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