The original Berber name, Anfa ( meaning: " hill " in English ), was used by the locals, and Berber-speaking, city dwellers until the French occupation army entered the city in 1907 and adopted the Spanish name, Casablanca.

The area which is today Casablanca was settled by Berbers by at least the 7th century BC.

In his book “ Wasf Afriquia ”, Hassan Al Wazan refers to ancient Casablanca as " Anfa ", a great city which was founded by the Berber kingdom of Barghawata in 768 AD.

Casablanca in 1572, when was still called Anfa

This effectively began the process of colonization, although French control of Casablanca was not formalised until 1910.

During the 1940s and 1950s, Casablanca was a major centre of anti-French rioting.

Casablanca was an important strategic port during World War II and hosted the Casablanca Conference in 1943, in which Churchill and Roosevelt discussed the progress of the war.

On 16 May 2003, 33 civilians were killed and more than 100 people were injured when Casablanca was hit by a multiple suicide bomb attack carried out by Moroccans and claimed by some to have been linked to al-Qaeda.

In 2004, it announced that it was moving its head office from Casablanca to a location in Province of Nouaceur, close to Mohammed V International Airport.

The population of Grand Casablanca was estimated in 2005 at 3. 85 million.

Jews were slow to return to the town, but by 1750 the Rabbi Elijah Synagogue was built as the first Jewish synagogue in Casablanca.

The French period Ville Nouvelle ( New Town ) of Casablanca was designed by the French architect Henri Prost, and was a model of a new town at that time.

* The Casablanca Technopark is an information technology Business cluster complex located at Casablanca, and was inaugurated in October 2001.

The early disco sound was largely an urban American phenomenon with producers and labels such as SalSoul Records ( Ken, Joe and Stanley Cayre ), West End Records ( Mel Cheren ), Casablanca ( Neil Bogart ), and Prelude ( Marvin Schlachter ) to name a few.

Casablanca Records had been releasing fewer records in the 1980s, and was shut down in 1986 by parent company PolyGram.

He was promptly shipped to Casablanca and, later in the war, to France.

Roman control reached the area of Casablanca, then called Anfa according to Leo Africanus: it was used as a port by the Phoenicians and later the Romans.

In May 2003, Morocco itself was subjected to the more radical forces at work in the Arab world when Islamist suicide bombers simultaneously struck a series of sites in Casablanca, killing 45 and injuring more than 100 others.

In 1942, Steiner won his second Oscar for Now, Voyager, and was also nominated for Casablanca, which remains one of his most famous scores.

This was fine for pre-1953 films such as The Wizard of Oz or Casablanca.

Columnists featured on the website include Kristin dos Santos ( the " Watch with Kristin " television blog ), Ted Casablanca (" The Awful Truth " gossip blog ) and Marc Malkin ( writer of an eponymous gossip blog and host of a daily videoblog on the site ).

Potential speed gains are large, with travel time from Casablanca to Marrakesh down from 3 hours to 1: 20, and from the capital Rabat to Tangier from 4: 30 to 1: 30.

Most large, historic cities of the Mediterranean basin, including Athens, Algiers, Barcelona, Beirut, İzmir, Jerusalem, Marseille, Rome and Tunis, lie within Mediterranean climatic zones, as do major cities outside of the Mediterranean basin, such as Lisbon, Casablanca, Cape Town, Adelaide, Perth, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Santiago de Chile.

During Operation Torch in November 1942, the Allies invaded French North Africa, leading to a large naval battle at Casablanca, but the Vichy forces quickly turned sides.

A large demonstration was organized through the streets of Casablanca.

Until 1585, Quillota was declared a corregimiento, and it was the main place of a large province between Illapel and Casablanca.

On 14 April, two brothers blew themselves up in downtown Casablanca, one near the American Consulate, and one a few blocks away near the American Language Center.

In addition, it is ranked third, behind Citizen Kane, and Casablanca on the AFI's 100 Years … 100 Movies list by the American Film Institute.

Notable American films from the war years include the anti-Nazi Watch on the Rhine ( 1943 ), scripted by Dashiell Hammett ; Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Hitchcock's direction of a script by Thornton Wilder ; the George M. Cohan biopic, Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ), starring James Cagney, and the immensely popular Casablanca, with Humphrey Bogart.

In the cool-climate South American wine regions of Argentina's Uco Valley and Chile's Casablanca, Chardonnay has started to develop a presence.

U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt stopped overnight in Banjul en route to and from the Casablanca Conference in 1943, marking the first visit to the African continent by a sitting American president.

The Western Task Force ( aimed at Casablanca ) comprised American units, with Major General George Patton in command and Rear Admiral Henry K. Hewitt heading the naval operations.

The song was then sent to Casablanca Records president Neil Bogart in hopes of getting an American release.

The 1942 Casablanca centers on the development of conscience in the cynical American Rick Blaine ( Humphrey Bogart ) in the face of oppression by the Nazis and the example of the resistance leader Victor Laszlo. The David Lean and Robert Bolt screenplay for Doctor Zhivago ( an adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel ) focuses strongly on the conscience of a doctor-poet in the midst of the Russian Revolution ( in the end " the walls of his heart were like paper "). The 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner focuses on the struggles of conscience between and within a bounty hunter ( Rick Deckard ( Harrison Ford )) and a renegade replicant android ( Roy Batty ( Rutger Hauer )) in a future society which refuses to accept that forms of artificial intelligence can have aspects of being such as conscience.

Although the albums are not exclusively about Key West, they detail the laid back island ethos of the small island city and its pre -" condo commando " status as an American Casablanca ... a place where no one knows your name and would not care if they did.

These strategic, coastal, and tactical units provided the model upon which British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, American President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and their staffs reorganized the Allied air forces in the North African and Mediterranean Theater of Operations ( MTO ) at the Casablanca Conference in January 1943.

In January 1943 Prime Minister Winston Churchill and American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt settled at the Casablanca conference on the island of Sicily, whose invasion and occupation could potentially provide the Allies with Mediterranean shipping routes and airfields nearer to mainland Italy and Germany.

This song was originally a full side of her North American debut release, but released again in early 1977 backed with " Try Me, I Know We Can Make It ", on the Oasis / Casablanca label.

In the end, only French forces fought, and the most significant battles took place at Casablanca where only American naval units were supporting operations.

Kilroy, a young American visitor, fulfills some of the functions of the play's narrator, as does Gutman, ( named after Sydney Greenstreet's character from The Maltese Falcon, but bearing more resemblance to Signor Ferrari, Greenstreet's character in Casablanca ) manager of the hotel Siete Mares, whose terrace occupies part of the stage.

The use of the term was revived during World War II at the Casablanca conference when American President Franklin D. Roosevelt sprang it on the other Allies and the press as the objective of the war against the Axis Powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan.

GPG needed to move into the US and UK markets, and did so by a process of both formation and acquisition: Polydor Records established its American operations in 1969, Mercury Record Productions ( US ) was acquired in 1972 from sister company North American Philips Corp., RSO ( UK ) in 1967, MGM Records and Verve ( US ) in 1972, Casablanca ( US ) in 1977, Pickwick in 1978, and Decca ( UK ) in 1980 ( the latter acquisition basically brought PolyGram full circle, see the HDD section above ).

During the American bombardment of Kandahar, Adel was present and witnessed the deaths of Abu-Ali al-Yafi ' i and his wife, Abu-Usamah al-Ta ' zi with his wife and two children, the wife of Rayyan al-Ta ' zi, the wife of Abu-Usamah al-Kini, and the wife of Al-Barra al-Hijazi who was arrested in Morocco before the Casablanca bombings.

Paul Henreid ( born Paul Georg Julius Hernreid Ritter von Wassel-Waldingau ; 10 January 1908-29 March 1992 ) was an Trieste-born American actor and film director, best remembered for playing Victor Laszlo in Casablanca ( 1942 ).

His flagships included USS Augusta while he commanded American naval forces at the Battle of Casablanca, Monrovia while he commanded the western task force during the invasion of Sicily, and Ancon while he commanded all Allied amphibious forces during the invasion of Italy and later Anzio landings and invasion of southern France.

" The supercouple created by the ill-fated ex-lovers Rick and Ilsa in Casablanca has been called one of cinema's most beloved couples, and is regarded by the American Film Institute as the film industry's " top " romance.