MAZAGAN (El Jadida)  , a port on the Atlantic coast of Morocco in 330 16' N . 8° 26' W . Pop . (1908), about 12,000, of whom afourth are Jews and some 400 Europeans . It is the port for Marrakesh, from which it is Ito m. nearly due north, and also for the fertile province of Dukalia . Mazagan presents from the sea a very un-Moorish appearance; it has massive Portuguese walls of hewn stone . The exports, which include beans, almonds, maize, chick-peas, wool, hides, wax, eggs, &c., were valued at £360,000 in 1900, £364,000 in 1904, and £248,000 in 1906 . The imports (cotton goods, sugar, tea, rice, &c.) were valued at £280,000 in 1900, £286,000 in 1904, and £320,000 in 1906 . About 46% of the trade is with Great Britain and 34% with France . Mazagan was built in 1506 by the Portuguese, who abandoned it to the Moors in 1769 and established a colony, New Mazagan, on the shores of Para in Brazil . See A . H .

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Les ports du Maroc " in Bull . Soc . Geog . Comm . Paris, xxx . 325-332 (1908), and British consular reports .