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A cover with French occupation stamps. During World War I, from 1914 to 1916 it was occupied by Allied Troops. Stamps of Gabon overprinted Corps Expeditionnaire Franco-Anglais Cameroun in 1915, and stamps of Middle Congo overprinted Occupation Française du Cameroun in 1916 were used by the French forces in Cameroon until the 1920s.
The provisional stamps of 1897. On 1 March 1897, contemporary Egyptian postage stamps, overprinted SOUDAN in French and Arabic, were made available in the post offices. The values which appeared were 1, 2, 3 and 5 milliemes and 1, 2, 5 and 10 piastres. The overprinting was done at the Imprimerie Nationale, Boulaq, Cario, Egypt.
Madagh, Morocco. / 35.01333°N 2.33972°W / 35.01333; -2.33972. Madagh is a town in Berkane Province, Oriental, Morocco. According to the 2004 census it has a population of 2312. [2]
Since 2015, Morocco officially administers 12 regions, including one ( Dakhla-Oued Ed-Dahab) that lies completely within the disputed territory of Western Sahara and two ( Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra and Guelmim-Oued Noun) that lie partially within it. The regions are subdivided into a total of 75 second-level administrative divisions, which are ...
Historic house architecture in Morocco. Traditional houses in Morocco are usually centered around a large internal courtyard, the wast ad-dar, and are characterized by a focus on interior decoration rather than on external appearance. The houses of wealthy residents featured decoration typical of Moroccan architecture and medieval Moorish ...
Alexandre de Rhodes, SJ (15 March 1593 [1] – 5 November 1660), also Đắc Lộ was an Avignonese Jesuit missionary and lexicographer who had a lasting impact on Christianity in Vietnam. He wrote the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum, the first trilingual Vietnamese - Portuguese - Latin dictionary, published in Rome, in 1651.
Funduq al-Najjarin ( Arabic: فندق النجارين, lit. 'Inn of the carpenters'; also transliterated as Fondouk el-Nejjarine) is a historic funduq (a caravanserai or traditional inn) in Fes el Bali, the old medina quarter in the city of Fez, Morocco. The funduq is situated in the heart of the medina, at Al-Najjarin Square (also: Nejjarine ...
Archives du Maroc, Rabat, 2016. The Archives du Maroc (est. 2007) is an archive in Rabat, Morocco, on Avenue Ibn Battouta. Jamaâ Baida became director in 2011. [1] It opened to the public in 2013. [2] Among its holdings are materials related to the colonial French protectorate in Morocco.