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CASABLANCA (Dar el Baida, " the white...

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 440 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CASABLANCA (See also:Dar el Baida, " the See also:white See also:house ")  , a seaport on the See also:Atlantic See also:coast of See also:Morocco, in 330 27' N., 7° 46' W . It is a See also:wool and See also:grain See also:port for central Morocco, chiefly for the provinces of Tadla and Shawia . Third in importance of the towns on the Moorish coast, unimpeded by See also:bar or serious rocks, the roadstead is exposed to the See also:north-See also:west winds . There is anchorage for steamers in 5 to 6 fathoms . Vessels were loaded and discharged by lighters from the See also:beach . In May 1907 the construction began of See also:harbour See also:works which afford sheltered See also:accommodation for See also:ships at all states of the See also:tide . The value of the See also:foreign See also:trade of the port for the See also:period 1897–1907 was about £750,000 a See also:year . A railway to Ber Reshid, the first See also:section of a See also:line intended to tap the See also:rich agricultural region of which See also:Casablanca is the port, was opened in See also:September 1908, being the firstrailway built in Morocco . The See also:population, about 20,000, includes numerous foreign merchants,Franciscan and See also:Protestant See also:missions, and a consular See also:corps . Built by the Portuguese upon the site of the once prosperous See also:town of Anfa, which they had destroyed in 1468, Casablanca was held by them for some See also:time, till trouble with the natives compelled them to abandon it . In See also:August 1907, in consequence of the See also:murder of a number of See also:French and See also:Spanish workmen engaged on the harbour works, the town was bombarded and occupied by the French (see MOROCCO: See also:History) .

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