The reason the digits are more commonly known as " Arabic numerals " in Europe and the Americas is that they were introduced to Europe in the 10th century by Arabs of North Africa, who were then using the digits from Libya to Morocco.

The Alaouites entered Morocco at the end of the 13th century when Al Hassan Addakhil, who lived then in the town of Yanbu in the Hejaz, was brought to Morocco by the inhabitants of Tafilalet to be their imām.

It is possible to travel from Melilla to Morocco on foot and then further using an ONCF train from nearby Beni Ansar (= Nador Port Railway station ) which is probably the most convenient method of travel to Taourirt, Fez and Casablanca or Tangier.

Taking an oath for Muslims can be a grave act ; one study of courts in Morocco found that lying litigants would often " maintain their testimony ' right up to the moment of oath-taking and then to stop, refuse the oath, and surrender the case.

On 24 November 2000, then Foreign affairs minister Serge Vohor announced that Vanuatu suspended that recognition and established ambassadorial level relations with Morocco.

Recording for Blur's next album began in London in November 2001, but concerted work started in June 2002, with the sessions moving to Marrakech, Morocco soon after, and then to Devon back in the UK.

Signs of military decline began with two disastrous battles: the Battle of Alcácer Quibir in Morocco in 1578 and Spain's abortive attempt to conquer England in 1588-Portugal was then in a dynastic union with Spain, and contributed ships to the Spanish invasion fleet.

Beyond Gades, several important Mauritanian colonies ( in modern-day Morocco ) were founded by the Phoenicians as the Phoenician merchant navy pushed through the Pillars of Hercules and began constructing a series of bases along the Atlantic coast starting with Lixus in the north, then Chellah and finally Mogador.

Since the islets had an " undefined internal status ", the immigrants did not benefit from the Spanish immigration laws and, under a joint operation, Spanish troops tended to the women, children, and medical needs of the immigrants, then turned them back over to Morocco.

Ibn Bassal then founded a garden in Seville, most of its plants being collected on a botanical expedition that included Morocco, Persia, Sicily and Egypt.

The new Brother Anthony then set out for Morocco, in fulfillment of his new vocation.

From the Yemeni tribe of Ghafiq, he relocated to Ifriqiya ( now Tunisia ), then to the stretch of the Maghreb that is now Morocco, where he became acquainted with Musa Ibn Nusair and his son Abdul Aziz, the governors of Al-Andalus.

The plan also made provisions for occupying Spanish possessions in North Africa: Spanish Morocco, Río de Oro, and the Canary Islands, whose ports could then be used as bases for German U-boats.

After an early training in Tlemcen, al-Maqqari moved to Fes in Morocco and then to Marrakech, following the court of Ahmad al-Mansur, to whom he dedicated his Rawdat al-As ( The garden of Myrtle ) about the ulemas of Marrakech and Fes.

The boat was purchased in Lithuania and shipped to Morocco by truck, and then was unfortunately destroyed along with other props in Morocco.

Despite the diplomatic rupture between Morocco and the Two Sicilies in 1830, and the naval warfare engaged against the Austrian Empire as well as with Spain, then headed by Ferdinand VII, Sultan Abderrahmane lent his support to the Algerian insurgency triggered by Abd El-Kader.

From the 1960s onward, Joans had a house in Tanger, Morocco and then in Timbuktu, Mali.

Among other refugees was Maimonides, who fled to Morocco, then Egypt, then Eretz Israel.

He travelled in Italy ; in Scotland, where he accompanied Mary, Queen of Scots ( then the widow of Francis II of France ); in England, where he saw Elizabeth I ( 1561, 1579 ); in Morocco ( 1564 ); and in Spain and Portugal.

In 1954, a WJC delegation visited Morocco, then still under French colonial rule.

Birds of the limosa subspecies from western Europe fly south to Morocco and then on to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau.

East of Morocco, huge territories in North Africa were annexed.

Morocco later virtually annexed the northern two-thirds of Western Sahara in 1976, and the rest of the territory in 1979, following Mauritania's withdrawal.

The next Saharawi exodus, although on a smaller scale, took place in 1979 when Mauritania withdrew from the conflict and Morocco annexed the rest of Western Sahara.

* August 11 – The former Mauritanian province of Tiris al-Gharbiyya in Western Sahara is annexed by Morocco.

King Hassan II of Morocco immediately claimed the area of Western Sahara evacuated by Mauritania ( Tiris al-Gharbiya, roughly corresponding to the southern half of Río de Oro ), which was unilaterally annexed by Morocco in August 1979.

Thus, the court recommended the UN to continue to pursue self-determination for the Sahrawis, enabling them to choose for themselves whether they wanted Spanish Sahara to turn into an independent state, or to be annexed to Morocco or Mauritania.

Morocco and Mauritania then formally annexed the parts they had been allotted in the Accords.

Morocco immediately annexed that territory in addition.

Almost the entire Casablanca waterfront is under development, mainly the construction of huge entertainment centres between the port and Hassan II Mosque, the Anfa Resort project near the business, entertainment and living centre of Megarama, the shopping and entertainment complex of Morocco Mall, as well as a complete renovation of the coastal walkway.

From the mid-1980s Morocco largely managed to keep Polisario troops off by building a huge berm or sand wall ( the Moroccan Wall ), staffed by an army roughly the same size as the entire Sahrawi population, enclosing within it the economically useful parts of Western Sahara ( Bou Craa, El-Aaiun, Smara, etc.

Instead, the entire East Bloc decided in favour of ties and trade with Morocco and refused to recognize the SADR.

The decline has been the greatest in the western half of the range, with extinction in many European countries ( France, Italy, Austria, Poland, Slovakia, Albania, Moldovia, Romania ) and its entire breeding range in northwest Africa ( Morocco and Algeria ).

His goal was now to unite the tribes of the Rif into an independent Republic of the Rif to undermine the entire French-Spanish colonial project in Morocco.

The entire divisional artillery of the U. S. 9th Infantry Division, 48 guns strong, plus a number of 37mm Anti-Tank gun platoons, that had started moving on 17 February from their positions west in Morocco, was emplaced that night.

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* Oqba ibn Nafi ' i al-Fihri, ( restored ), 681-683-led cavalcade to Morocco, ostensibly bringing entire Maghreb under submission.

If the term Gharnati refers in the region of Tlemcen to the entire directory of Andalusian scholars, in Morocco it designates a distinct musical style of the Andalusian in addition to the much larger directory of " Tab Al Ala " style as confirmed by the authors Rachid Aous and Mohammed Habib Samrakandi in their book Music of Algeria.

If the term Gharnati refers in current Algeria, especially in the region of Tlemcen, the entire directory Andalusian scholar, in Morocco it designates a distinct musical style of the Andalusian " Tab Al Ala " as confirmed by the authors Rachid Aous, Mohammed Habib Samrakandi pages 15 and 24 in their book " Music of Algeria "

Mauritania acquiesced to the agreements under the assumption, probably correct, that Morocco, with its superior military power, would otherwise have absorbed the entire territory.

In this referendum, the entire present-day population of Western Sahara would participate, including people who had migrated from or been settled by Morocco post-1975, something which Polisario had so far refused.