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The original Berber name, Anfa (meaning: "hill" in English [1]), was used by the locals until the earthquake of 1755 destroyed the city. When Sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah rebuilt the city's medina, he gave it the name "ad-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ" (الدار البيضاء) a literal translation of Casablanca into Arabic. [2]
Casablanca also hosts the primary naval base for the Royal Moroccan Navy. Casablanca is a significant financial centre, ranking 54th globally in the September 2023 Global Financial Centres Index rankings, between Brussels and Rome. [5] The Casablanca Stock Exchange is Africa's third-largest in terms of market capitalization, as of December 2022 ...
Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid.Filmed and set during World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate (Bogart) who must choose between his love for a woman (Bergman) and helping her husband (Henreid), a Czechoslovak resistance leader, escape from the Vichy-controlled city of ...
Los Casablanca is a Chilean telenovela created by Ximena Carrera and María José Galleguillos. It premiered on Mega on December 3, 2024. [ 1 ] The telenovela stars Francisco Reyes , Francisco Melo and Sigrid Alegría .
Kasbah of Sfax in Tunisia. A kasbah (/ ˈ k æ z b ɑː /, also US: / ˈ k ɑː z-/; Arabic: قصبة, romanized: qaṣaba, lit. 'fortress', Arabic pronunciation:, Maghrebi Arabic:), also spelled qasbah, qasba, qasaba, or casbah, is a fortress, most commonly the citadel or fortified quarter of a city.
Casablanca (volcano) a volcano in southern Chile; Casablanca, Chile, a municipality in the region of Valparaiso Casablanca Valley, a wine region in Chile; Casablanca, Havana, a suburb of Havana, Cuba; Camp Casablanca, a military base in Kosovo; Grand Casablanca, a region in Morocco which includes the city of Casablanca
This is the official position of the Diccionario de la lengua española. Robert A. Geuljans, etymologist, agrees with the connection between "gabacho" and the Aquitanian and Catalonian origins by considering that the origin of all, gabacho, gavatx and gavach comes from the Occitan word for "goiter", a disorder common in the French Pyrene caused ...
Casablanca, Nest of Spies (French: Casablanca, nid d'espions, Spanish: Noches de Casablanca, Italian: Spionaggio a Casablanca) is a 1963 French-Spanish-Italian spy film directed by Henri Decoin and starring Sara Montiel, Maurice Ronet and Franco Fabrizi. [1] Set in 1942 in Casablanca, it was shot in Alicante. [2]