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The first Moroccan postal stamps were produced in 1891 by private companies which managed courier services between cities. The system was replaced after a reorganization in 1911, the Sherifian post was created to handle local mail, and produced two series of stamps which were valid for use until 1915 and until 1919 in Tangier. [citation needed]
Rabat ( / rəˈbɑːt /, also UK: / rəˈbæt /, US: / rɑːˈbɑːt /; [ 3][ 4][ 5] Arabic: الرباط, romanized : ar-Ribāṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh-largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) [ 2] and a metropolitan population of over 1.2 million. It is also the capital city ...
ISO 3166-2:MA. ISO 3166-2:MA is the entry for Morocco in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1 . Currently for Morocco, ISO 3166-2 codes are ...
Mohammed V International Airport is the hub of the national airline of Morocco, Royal Air Maroc. Casablanca's main airport is Mohammed V International Airport , Morocco's busiest airport. Regular domestic flights serve Marrakech , Rabat , Agadir , Oujda , Tangier , Al Hoceima, and Laayoune , as well as other cities.
The French protectorate in Morocco, [4] also known as French Morocco, was the period of French colonial rule in Morocco that lasted from 1912 to 1956. [5] The protectorate was officially established 30 March 1912, when Sultan Abd al-Hafid signed the Treaty of Fez, though the French military occupation of Morocco had begun with the invasion of Oujda and the bombardment of Casablanca in 1907.
This is a list of municipalities (urban or rural communes), and arrondissements of Morocco, based on the 2004 census.. In 2009 a new administrative division of Morocco was adopted, creating 13 new provinces: Berrechid, Driouch, Fquih Ben Salah, Guercif, Midelt, Ouezzane, Rehamna, Sidi Bennour, Sidi Ifni, Sidi Slimane, Tarfaya, Tinghir and Youssoufia.
The French Protectorate Residence also known as Residence-general ( French: résidence générale) is a historic building in Rabat, Morocco. It was the seat of the Resident-general in the French protectorate in Morocco from its completion in 1924 to the end of the protectorate in 1956. Following Moroccan independence, the property became the ...
In Morocco, the 75 second-level administrative subdivisions are 13 prefectures and 62 provinces. They are subdivisions of the 12 regions of Morocco. [ 1] Each prefecture or province is subdivided into arrondissements (only in prefectures of some metropolitan areas ), municipalities ( communes, sing. commune) or urban municipalities ( communes ...