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Encyclopedia Britannica



MAZAGAN (El Jadida)

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 939 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAR-MEC
MAZAGAN (El Jadida) , a port on the Atlantic
coast
  of Morocco in 330 16' N. 8 26' W. Pop. (1908), about 12,000, of whom afourth are
Jews
  and some 400 Europeans. It is the port for Marrakesh, from which it is Ito m. nearly due north, and also for the fertile province of Dukalia.
Mazagan
  presents from the sea a very un-Moorish
appearance
 ; it has massive Portuguese walls of hewn stone. The exports, which include beans, almonds, maize, chick-peas, wool, hides, wax, eggs, &c., were valued at 360,000 in 1900, 364,000 in 1904, and 248,000 in 1906. The imports (
cotton
  goods, sugar, tea,
rice
 , &c.) were valued at 280,000 in 1900, 286,000 in 1904, and 320,000 in 1906. About 46% of the trade is with
Great
  Britain and 34% with France.
Mazagan
  was built in 1506 by the Portuguese, who abandoned it to the Moors in 1769 and established a colony, New Mazagan, on the shores of Para in Brazil.
See A. H. Dye, " Les ports du Maroc " in
Bull
 . Soc. Geog. Comm. Paris, xxx. 325-332 (1908), and British consular reports.


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