Search results for "Tangier" - New World Encyclopedia
From New World Encyclopedia
Advertisement
- originally an adjective meaning "of Tangier," a Moroccan seaport ... type, with the word based on the city of Tangier. The marketing of specifically ...9 KB (1,284 words) - 15:12, 24 September 2025
- 1377, year of death uncertain) was born in Tangier, Morocco during the time ... last detour to Sardinia, then returned to Tangier to discover that his mother ...15 KB (2,593 words) - 14:54, 28 November 2024
- In 1947, Bowles settled in Tangier, Morocco, and his wife, Jane Bowles ... On her advice he made his first visit to Tangier with Aaron Copland in the ...32 KB (4,959 words) - 04:34, 3 November 2025
- colonies in North Africa in 1904. The Tangier Crisis had sparked a sudden cooperation between the two countries in the face of their mutual fear ...9 KB (1,394 words) - 19:48, 26 March 2020
- Maghreb in 786, settling initially in modern-day Tangier. In 788, he was invited by the chief of a tribal confederacy known as the Awraba to help Islamize ...10 KB (1,519 words) - 19:45, 10 September 2025
- Mohammadia, Oujda, Ouarzazat, Safi, Salè, Tangier, Tiznit, and Tan-Tan. ... remained quite wealthy. In 1684, it annexed Tangier. ===Barbary Coast=== ...39 KB (5,712 words) - 09:49, 1 June 2025
- ) became secretary to the governor of Ceuta and Tangier. He attracted the attention of Caliph Abu Yaqub Yusuf, the Almohad ruler of Al-Andalus, who made ...10 KB (1,531 words) - 15:08, 28 November 2024
- serve Marrakech, Rabat, Agadir, Oujda, and Tangier, Laayoune as well as other ... and north to Rabat, and then on either to Tangier or Meknes, Fes, Taza and ...20 KB (2,766 words) - 14:16, 29 November 2023
- primary organizer of the Portuguese expedition to Tangier in 1437. This proved a disastrous failure: the Moroccans captured Henry's younger brother ...10 KB (1,543 words) - 15:52, 15 July 2024
- #039; fiction, he decided to head for Tangier, Morocco. ... to as Interzone Burroughs lived in Tangier for several months, before ...53 KB (8,079 words) - 10:49, 12 May 2023
- In an expedition to Tangier, undertaken in 1436, by King Edward of ... was taken. In 1471, Arzila (Asila) and Tangier were captured. ...34 KB (5,124 words) - 22:30, 13 April 2026
- in Sri Lanka (1658) and the cession of Bombay and Tangier to England (June 23, 1661) as dowry for Afonso's sister, Catherine of Braganza who had ...14 KB (2,151 words) - 22:00, 23 November 2020
- present at Afonso V's conquest of Arzila and Tangier in 1471. On his return, King John II (ruled 1481–95) appointed him estribeiro-mor (chief ...14 KB (2,194 words) - 06:01, 16 June 2023
- In years 1940 between 1950, like Cairo, Tangier and Istanbul, Abidjan became a part of popular imagination as a nest for spies and criminals ...16 KB (2,266 words) - 16:38, 6 February 2026
- type, with the word based on the city of Tangier. Recent research has suggested that the closely related genus Fortunella, and perhaps also Poncirus ...21 KB (3,061 words) - 15:50, 24 September 2025
- ** Tingis (modern Tangier) * Located in modern Spain ** bdera (modern Adra) ** Abyla (modern Ceuta) ** Akra Leuke (modern Alicante) ...30 KB (4,504 words) - 03:58, 4 November 2025
- business. The American-owned Vacuum Oil Company in Tangier, for example, refused to sell to Republican ships and the Texas Oil Company supplied gasoline ...34 KB (5,051 words) - 15:18, 27 April 2023
- who brought him the territories of Bombay and Tangier as dowry. During the same year, however, he sold Dunkirk—a much more valuable strategic outpost—to ...35 KB (5,347 words) - 02:10, 13 January 2023
- 1925 but at a terrible cost to both sides. In 1923, Tangier was declared an international city under French–Spanish–British (and later Italian) joint ...78 KB (11,731 words) - 19:08, 7 February 2023
- In 1668, he sailed for the North African outpost of Tangier, recently acquired as part of the dowry of Charles' Portuguese wife, Catherine ...54 KB (8,414 words) - 17:21, 16 December 2022
