The largest city in Morocco and economic capital, and the third most cities of Africa's most populous after Lagos and Cairo, known in ancient times as the nose, to be called the Portuguese Casa Branca (Casa Branca) after finding your house white in the 16th century, and he named the Spaniards after them, Casa Blanca (Casa Blanca). And called the Moroccan Acronym "Casa", reflects the architecture of Arab and Islamic civilization and the effects of modern engineering.
Location
Casablanca lies on the Atlantic region of Lower Chaouia coast 95 kilometers from the capital Rabat, its strategic center of industrial production between Kenitra north yellow shelf to the south, and the climate is mild Situated marine influences line and extends its depth to an area of 60 kilometers in the direction of home.
Population
After a population not exceeding 20,000 inhabitants in 1900, it is estimated that the population exceeded the limits of 4,750,000 people, and make up more than 12% of the total population of Morocco.
The population of the state of Greater Casablanca amounted to 3,728,824 inhabitants according to the census of 2004, it operates 60% of the labor force in the city's industrial sector.
Economy
The city is described as pole industrial and commercial, and the beating heart of the economy of Morocco, the first direction for investors and national and international companies, as it embraces about 60% of Morocco and its labs.
The Casablanca Stock Exchange third in Africa after Cairo and Johannesburg Stock Exchange, and the city's economic activity varies between industry (aviation industry, the automotive industry, electronic industry, food industry ..), services and construction, public works and tourism.
The city and benefit from available on many qualifications, including the largest airport in Morocco, Mohammed V International Airport, the largest port (520 hectares of lawns, more than eight kilometers from the sidewalks) and modern network of roads and railways, and locomotives tram connecting the peripheral neighborhoods of the economic and social dynamism of the city.
Date
Date of Casablanca back over a thousand years BC, where he revealed archaeological studies on the presence of traces proving that she was one of the oldest populated areas of old, and that the Phoenicians, Romans and Berbers settled them, and make them the Carthaginians commercial center, and taken Barghawatas medieval capital.
Some sources said that the Amazigh kingdom Barghawata founded the city of "nose" any Casablanca in 768 with a different novels "Onava" and "nose" for the labels, and likely some historians that the Amazigh Alzenatien are built.
They use Marinids hub of maritime trade with the outside world, and seized by the Portuguese and Spaniards, and rebuilt in the era of the upper state during the rule of Sultan "Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdallah" (1757-1790) as "Casablanca."
And it has become a favorite destination for the tribes, "Chaoui" and "Doukkala" and turned with time into an attractive city for traders and craftsmen from areas several Moroccan cities, and during the colonial period taken by France center for its companies and its exploitative wealth of Morocco, and exported abroad.
Population and residents of suburbs participated in the struggle against colonialism, and was a center of resistance centers after the bombing of the French battleship "Kalili" in the August 5 / August 1907 Among the most famous men of the resistance by Muhammad ibn Muhammad Alzarktona.
It embraced in 1943 during the reign of King Mohammed V international conference defined above conference was attended by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and US President Franklin Roosevelt and French President General Charles de Gaulle, and discussed the decision of the Second World War.
After Morocco's independence in 1956, the city knew a great development and urban demography and become the largest cities in the Kingdom.
Milestones
Multiple Casablanca landmarks and credited with, notably:
-msadjad Hassan II, who built took nearly 16 years (1987-1993), the largest mosque in the world after the Haramain, built above the water and its minaret of 210 kilometers, will accommodate 25,000 worshipers inside and 80,000 in the courtyard.
-almedinh Old: a set of walls surrounding the old city of Casablanca, and a number of historic buildings and a beacon Kalsqalh palate and Square "is not a comedy," The Dome "Sidi Bou Samara."
-ha Habs which was built in the period of protection, one of the major tourist attractions in the White House, after his culture and civilization Tgehma arches and built architectural Arab and Islamic architecture mixed European.
-kornic Appointed Dhiyab, and runs along the beach waterfront retreat includes swimming pools, hotels, chain restaurants, and is being developed on an ongoing basis to make it a destination for leisure and recreation.
-street Mohammed V, where the pool of buildings on the flanks between traditional Arab and Islamic authenticity, and the French engineering, and modern buildings, dating this street for nearly a century.
