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| quote: What 200+ meter tall structure in Casablanca, Morocco is the tallest of its kind in the world
The late King Hassan II Mosque built quite recently..., this newly built Islamic house of worship towers above Casablanca's old medina (Arab type town) like a guardian angel. Rising like some kind of divine ship, it is built in the city's heart on the seashore - the most western point of the Islamic lands Called by the Moroccans, who take genuine pride in the structure, ‘the eighth wonder of the world’ it is a high-tech mosque built in memory of Muhammad V - the father of modern Morocco. Regal, Islamic and popular with the majority of Moroccans who call it ‘the entire nation’s dream’, this huge structure, which cost some $600 million to build, can be seen from almost any part of the city. If a traveller is coming in by sea, its 200 m (655 ft) high minaret - the highest in the world - from whose top a laser shoots a beam 32 km (20 mi) in the direction of Mecca, can be seen from 150 km (93 mi) away. www.travelingtales.com/salloum/casablanca/index.html | | | | Posts: 16365 | Location: 6 miles west of Wigan UK | Registered: 06-05-02 |
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| quote: #8 What Moroccan city was originally known as Villa Sanjuro
Al Hoceima, then known as Villa Sanjuro, named after the general that landed here in 1925. The only notable colonial building left is the Spanish College, Colegio Espanol, in the north edge of town. This custard cream building with blue and white tiles is a good example of an expensive early 20th century house. Today, it is used to dispense Spanish academic programs to Moroccan children. The newer part of town runs all the way down to the cliffs above the town beach, Plage Quemado. At the heart of it is Place Massira al Khadra, the city’s main square. From here you can get a spectacular view of Penom de Alhucemas, a Spanish-owned island just a few hundred metres off the coast. www.morocco-holidays-guide.co....ima-attractions.html | | | | Posts: 16365 | Location: 6 miles west of Wigan UK | Registered: 06-05-02 |
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| quote: Originally posted by dogspit: Erg Chebbi is quite right. (Erg also comes up in English crosswords as a unit of energy). Thanks for the answer. 
Since Morocco was under French government for many years and French-Arab languages became somehow mixed up some Arab words ended up in French dictionaries, and "erg" is one of them meaning " a vast spread of dunes in the desert".(Is what they would ask in crosswords). Which is why I could figure it out. I liked this one. | | | | Posts: 9057 | Location: u.s.a, south Florida | Registered: 06-03-02 |
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| | | | | Posts: 9057 | Location: u.s.a, south Florida | Registered: 06-03-02 |
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| #9: Just "Justo" Fontaine #4: November 6 Anniversary of the Green March, this commemorates the event when in 1975 approximately 350,000 unarmed Moroccans along with 27,000 soldiers under the direction of King Hassan II marched to the border of Western Sahara calling for the territory to be returned to Morocco. #5:French explorer Charles Foucauld, disguised as a rabbi; the English journalist Walter Harris as rifeño, and William Summers, an American missionary, who was poisoned and died there. Source. | | | | Posts: 9057 | Location: u.s.a, south Florida | Registered: 06-03-02 |
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