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Northern end of the avenue's wider segment, with Bank Al-Maghrib on the left and Maroc Telecom on the right. Avenue Mohammed V, sometimes referred to by its old name Avenue Dar al-Makhzen ( lit. 'Royal Palace Avenue' ), is a major thoroughfare in downtown Rabat, Morocco. Its main section was created under the French Protectorate in Morocco and ...
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 ...
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.
Mohammed V University ( Arabic: جامعة محمد الخامس, French: Université Mohammed-V) is a public university in Rabat, Morocco. It was founded in 1957 under a royal decree ( Dahir ). It is the first modern university in Morocco after the University of al-Qarawiyyin in Fez. It is named after Mohammed V of Morocco .
1864 [ 1] The Royal Palace or Dar al-Makhzen ( Arabic: دار المخزن, lit. 'House of the Makhzen ', Berber languages: ⵜⴰⴷⴰⵔⵜ ⵏ ⵎⴿⵣⵏ) is the primary and official residence of the king of Morocco in Rabat. It is situated in the commune of Touarga [ fr]. Its official name is El Mechouar Essaid, lit.
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 ...
The expression "les trois seigneurs" means in French "of the three lords". It is a reference to a mountain called "Le pic des trois seigneurs" that close the Courbière valley in which Rabat is settled. The name come from the fact that three valleys (Courbière, Vicdessos, Couserans) are closed by this peak. As each of the valleys has a ...
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 ...