• Written by Marco Ramerini, 2005 (English edition: 2023) In this text I describe the information I have gathered over the years regarding the Spanish outposts in the peripheral islands of the Moluccas, therefore excluding the islands of Ternate and Tidore. (colonialvoyage.com)
  • who went around terrorizing people back in the 17th and 18th centuries. (bookforum.com)
  • Throughout the 16th to the 18th centuries, rings with posies were exchanged between friends, relatives, and lovers, and at betrothals and wedding ceremonies. (frieze.com)
  • Tangier is in the midst of a massive renovation and expansion - a new ferry and cruise port, a duty-free zone, and the massive Tangier Med shipping facility all meant to make the city and Morocco into a critical juncture of the global flows of goods, people, services, and capital. (port.ac.uk)
  • In this episode, we turn to one of those more distant episodes: the English occupation of Tangier from 1661 to 1684. (port.ac.uk)
  • What made English Tangier unique? (port.ac.uk)
  • This entry was posted in Blogs and tagged Colonial Rule , English Tangier , History , Morocco , North Africa by Francophone Africa . (port.ac.uk)
  • Tangier, Morocco. (mediationkc.com)
  • Morocco was a French colony during much of the 20th Century and most signage in Tangier is posted in Arabic and French. (mediationkc.com)
  • On November 7, 7:00 pm, TALIM will host a discussion with Professor Karim Bejjit of Hassan II University in Casablanca, of his 2015 book, English Colonial Texts on Tangier, 1661-1684 . (legation.org)
  • Dr. Bejjit will discuss this collection of 18 Restoration pamphlets written about England's venture in ruling Tangier in the 17th century. (legation.org)
  • Initially, the apple was only grown in small quantities, but it gradually became more popular, and by the 19th century, it was being cultivated in larger quantities throughout Japan. (ivu.org)
  • The first recorded instance of apple cultivation in Africa was in the early 19th century in South Africa. (ivu.org)
  • In: A small quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single, minute non-professional italic hand, probably someone associated with Oxford University, comprising 180 pages now all separated and mounted, interleaved, in 19th-century calf. (celm-ms.org.uk)
  • It requires us to imagine who we might be if we found ourselves in, say, 16th century France or 19th century South Africa. (womensprizeforfiction.co.uk)
  • By the early 20th century, the Elgin Valley in South Africa had become a major apple-growing region, and apple cultivation had spread to other parts of Africa, including Algeria. (ivu.org)
  • Finally, the last wreck to bear this name in English waters was a Scottish herring lugger from Banffshire in 1895, working the Great Yarmouth fishing grounds as so many Scottish fishermen did, up to the mid 20th century. (thewreckoftheweek.com)
  • At the very beginning of the 20th century, the Tramway de Nice, the first generation of electric streetcars, came to Nice. (avivadirectory.com)
  • Remember that until the late 20th century access to the island was limited to ships. (the-travelling-twins.com)
  • The yearning for a return to the Golden Age of Spanish history, when the Spanish Empire spanned four continents, may have driven Spanish colonialism in Morocco in the early 20th century. (allempires.com)
  • The economic recovery in the first decade of the 20th century may also have factored into Spain's renewed interests to maintain colonies, and is certainly what funded Spanish military operations in Morocco. (allempires.com)
  • Essaouira is 170 Km from Marrakech along the Atlantic Coast of Morocco. (souladventuremorocco.com)
  • Often called the "Red City," Marrakech, Morocco, requires sun protection and headgear of some kind all year-round, even during winter . (factretriever.com)
  • Explore the south of Morocco In these 5 Days from Marrakech to Merzouga Desert tour and visit the rocky peaks of the High Atlas mountains with the Beautiful traditional buildings of the Berber People and the colossal sand dunes of the Sahara. (marrakechtourcompany.com)
  • through your 5 Days from Marrakech to Merzouga desert, you will enjoy the breathtaking sceneries of the south of Morocco, The Beautiful Buildings of the Berber, gorges, green valleys, and old Kasbah, Oasis, and sand dunes. (marrakechtourcompany.com)
  • Morocco is famous all over the world for argan oil, carpets, Marrakech souq, sunny weather … and delicious food! (the-travelling-twins.com)
  • Discover exotic Morocco, from the timeless walled city of Fes to the bustling medina in Marrakech, viewing local Berber life in the ruggedly beautiful High Atlas Mountains and staying at A&K's Private Desert Camp nestled among the towering dunes of the Sahara. (abercrombiekent.com.au)
  • The festival of Sidi Ali Ben Hamdouch in the Moroccan village of Sidi Ali, near Meknes, brings Moroccans from far and wide to venerate a 17th century Muslim saint and his servant Lalla Aicha, a mythical Muslim princess from the desert who dwells in the spirit world and is a powerful unseen force for her followers. (alarabiya.net)
  • MENAFN - Morocco Business News) The average monthly income of Moroccan households stands at about MAD 5,300, a figure that hides flagrant discrepancies between the city and the countryside, MAD 6,100 and MAD 3,900 respectively, and between social classes themselves. (blogspot.com)
  • Dubbed Moroccan, or Berber, "whiskey," tea has become the national drink of Morocco. (factretriever.com)
  • It was introduced to Morocco in 1854 when blockaded British merchants uploaded large quantities of tea at major Moroccan ports, Thé à la Menthe (Green Mint Tea) is Chinese green tea brewed with a handful of mint leaves and liberally loaded up with sugar . (factretriever.com)
  • It was a brief interlude: control of the city itself was part of Catherine of Braganza's dowry to King Charles II, but English forces quickly found the situation (under intermittent but heavy resistance from local Moroccan tribes) unsustainable. (port.ac.uk)
  • Why did it fail, and how did the experience shape Moroccan-English relations in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? (port.ac.uk)
  • The second Imperial City will take you to the "Moroccan Versailles" in Meknes, originally founded in the 17th century. (yaminatours.com)
  • Although Spain began to occupy strategic parts of the Moroccan coastline in the mid-15th and 16th centuries, her interest for colonizing the area across the Straits of Gibraltar perhaps did not completely start until the Spanish-American war of 1898. (allempires.com)
  • DNA evidence from two lion skulls found in the Tower of London prove that English royalty owned at least two Barbary lions sometime between the 13th and 15th centuries. (factretriever.com)
  • What do Ibrahim Ben Yiju, a Jewish merchant from 11th century Yemen, Ibn Batutah, a Muslim scholar from 15th century Morocco and Captain Kidd, a 17th century English pirate have in common? (williams.edu)
  • In contemporary Morocco and all of North Africa , it is generally used to refer to the fortified strong point in a city. (factretriever.com)
  • Uncover vibrant, colourful and exotic Morocco, jewel of North Africa and one of the world's most stylish and fascinating destinations. (abercrombiekent.com.au)
  • The large square rooms are filled with favorite pieces, such as a feather-stuffed Howard sofa and a pair of carved columns from a 16th-century ship, found in a little antiques shop near her house. (blogspot.com)
  • The 16th century saw Essaouira as a major trade port on the Atlantic coast of Africa and also… a safe haven for pirates. (shtandart.ru)
  • Our tour included a visit to the Kasbah Museum, housed in the former palace that dates to the late 17th Century. (mediationkc.com)
  • A kasbah belonging to one of the most powerful families in Morocco. (moroccowonderstour.com)
  • The earliest evidence of glazed brick is the discovery of glazed bricks in the Elamite Temple at Chogha Zanbil , dated to the 13th century BC. (wikipedia.org)
  • It remained part of the dominion of the Duchy of Savoy until the the late 13th century. (avivadirectory.com)
  • today the Islamic world stretches even further than it did then, with Muslim populations dominating countries from Malaysia and Indonesia in the East to Morocco in the West. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • This is the project undertaken by Souleymane Bachir Diagne in Open to Reason: Muslim Philosophers in Conversation with the Western Tradition , a monograph first published in French in 2008 and now translated into English by Jonathan Adjemian. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • The captivity narrative, an account of the seven months in 1756 she was held in Morocco as prisoner of the sultan Sidi Muhammad, has title 'Narrative written by Miss Elizabeth Marsh during her captivity in Barbary in the year 1756. (ucla.edu)
  • Thus we will primarily focus on India's role in the Indian Ocean roughly from the rise of Islam in the seventh century CE through the expansion of various European communities in the region and the subsequent rise of the global economy and colonialism in the nineteenth century. (williams.edu)
  • Rapier sharp pulse pounding action across the warp and weave of the seventeenth century. (itswritenow.com)
  • Despite these challenges, apple cultivation in Africa has grown rapidly in the past century. (ivu.org)
  • Morocco is the only country in Africa with shores on the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. (mediationkc.com)
  • There are 10 different locations across the globe that are twinned with Antwerp, including Shanghai in China, Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Cape Town in South Africa and Fes in Morocco. (armishaws.com)
  • Dengue was reported in Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (cdc.gov)
  • Under the Romans from around 1st century BC a large purple production facility was established in Essaouira. (shtandart.ru)
  • At the end of the 18th century sultan Mohammed III decided to turn Essaouira into a new centre for maritime trade as part of his campaign for economical integration with Europe. (shtandart.ru)
  • For the following 200 years Essaouira remained the biggest port in Morocco. (shtandart.ru)
  • The Medina of Essaouira, with its 18th century colonial military architecture, is a UNESCO World Heritage listed city. (shtandart.ru)
  • Paris became the capital of France in the 12th century and Parisian French gained ascendancy over the others. (worldlanguage.com)
  • Like most general publications on philosophy in the Islamic world, he focuses mostly on the "medieval" period - in the Islamic context, one might say "classical" or "formative" - roughly the ninth to 12th centuries CE. (lareviewofbooks.org)
  • an English traveller and writer of the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean age. (colonialsense.com)
  • Around late 17th century, Anne Marie Orsini, Dutchess of Bracciano and Princess of Nerola, popularized the essence of bitter orange as a fragrance by using it to perfume her gloves and as bathing water. (aliksir.com)
  • The Ghost Ship is a female pirate story set in the 17th century between Amsterdam, La Rochelle, Carcassonne and the Canary Islands. (womensprizeforfiction.co.uk)
  • A century later, Sayyida al Hurra (1485-1561), the queen of Tétoun in northern Morocco, was a pirate commander controlling the west side of the Mediterranean Sea in an alliance with the Turkish corsair Barbarossa of Algiers, who held the eastern waters. (womensprizeforfiction.co.uk)
  • Sultan Mohammed V, the current monarch's grandfather, organized Morocco as a constitutional monarchy and assumed the title of King in 1957. (factretriever.com)
  • Located in Meknes is also the mausoleum of the longest reigning sultan of Morocco, Moulay Ismail. (yaminatours.com)
  • an English jurist and a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish law. (colonialsense.com)
  • The fortress of Nossa Senhora dos Remédios is the most important fortification of the entire defensive system built on the island of Fernando de Noronha (Brazil) by the Portuguese in the eighteenth century and is located on a hill between the Bay of Santo António and the Praia do Cachorro. (colonialvoyage.com)
  • Of course, Tangier's proximity to Europe and position astride the Strait of Gibraltar has long provided it with a cosmopolitan, international character, typified by the International Zone days during European colonial rule of Morocco in the first half of the twentieth century. (port.ac.uk)
  • During the 17th century, the city became a Portuguese colony. (souladventuremorocco.com)
  • The history of Kharkov city lies in the middle of the 17th century, when Cossacks established themselves in Slobozhanschyna and since then it has been one of the biggest commercial and cultural centers in Ukraine, with a population of 1.7 million inhabitants. (mapmonde.org)
  • Wander through the winding alleys and appreciate the oldest Imperial City in Morocco. (yaminatours.com)
  • Right after breakfast, you will drive to the second imperial city of Morocco. (yaminatours.com)
  • We will continue driving to the last imperial city of Morocco. (yaminatours.com)
  • Our first stop will be at the city of Ifrane, nicknamed the Switzerland of Morocco. (yaminatours.com)
  • Then, travel to the Moorish city of Rabat, capital of Morocco, to visit the Mohammed V Mausoleum, dedicated to the founder of modern Morocco, grandfather of the current king. (abercrombiekent.com.au)
  • Inhabitants are called Sinjoren after the Spanish honorific señor/French honorific seigneur, both meaning "lord", referring to noblemen who ruled the city in the 17th century. (armishaws.com)
  • The trade in the city expanded to include English cloth, French wine, Baltic wheat and other resources. (armishaws.com)
  • A small international airport serving the city of the same name, Antwerp Airport has flights to and from countries like the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Italy, and Morocco. (discovercars.com)
  • Travel with them to Spain, and Morocco, through fire, pirates, and assassins to the conclusion of this award-winning epic adventure. (itswritenow.com)
  • Origination was confirmed by DNA analysis of several samples of Mejhoul palms collected from diverse areas including Morocco, Egypt and the USA. (ishs.org)
  • French is one of the world's great languages, rivaled only by English as the language of international society and diplomacy. (worldlanguage.com)
  • In the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries French was preeminent as an inter-national language, though it has been partially eclipsed by English in the 20th. (worldlanguage.com)
  • The French alphabet is the same as that of English, though the letter (w) appears only in foreign words. (worldlanguage.com)
  • French spelling generally reflects the language as it was spoken four or five centuries ago and is therefore a poor guide to modern pro-nunciation. (worldlanguage.com)
  • Although French pronunciation is governed by fairly consistent rules, the actual sounds of the language are quite difficult for the English speaker, and a good "French accent" is something not easily acquired. (worldlanguage.com)
  • As the two major languages of the Western world, English and French naturally have contributed many words to each other. (worldlanguage.com)
  • The enormous Impact of Norman French on the English language has already been discussed. (worldlanguage.com)
  • After mortally wounding a nobleman's son, a young French swordmaster is drugged and taken from Bordeaux aboard an English slave ship. (itswritenow.com)
  • French is more efficient-verbs imply their subjects-but the experience of reading these books in Stock's English comes close to capturing the infectious cadence of Taïa's chain of short sentences. (bookforum.com)
  • We have four wrecks in English waters called Noel , one of which was a French steamer which staggered from collision to collision off the Royal Sovereign Light Vessel in the English Channel, during a gale in 1897 which saw widespread casualties all over England. (thewreckoftheweek.com)
  • A space with great mysticism that combined the French charm with the cozy English country atmosphere. (blogspot.com)
  • Quebec French (Québécois) has a distinct accent based more on 17th century French that speakers of standard French often poke fun at. (gooverseas.com)
  • Canada may be seen as more appealing to beginning French learners, as it is very easy to find people who are bilingual with both French and English, though this can make a fully immersive experience more difficult. (gooverseas.com)
  • In many of the larger cities in France it is increasingly common to encounter French people who speak English and love to practice with a native speaker, which can sometimes make it a challenge to learn French. (gooverseas.com)
  • But because so many French people want to practice with native English speakers, language partners and exchanges are common and are a great way to meet French people with similar interests. (gooverseas.com)
  • A little less than half the Haitian population speaks French, much of which is more of a Creole dialect that is based on 18th century French with African influence. (gooverseas.com)
  • At the tail end of the 17th century, the French army destroyed Nice's defenses not once, but twice. (avivadirectory.com)
  • The establishment of the Vichy Regime, many of the refugees fled Nice and the wildly anti-Semitic Vichy for safe harbor in the French colonies, North and South America, and Morocco. (avivadirectory.com)
  • Script is in a single 17th-century hand, possibly that of a French scribe, suggested by pen scribblings in French in Chapter 263. (ucla.edu)
  • Vowing to avenge her husband's execution for treason in 1343, she acquired three warships with the assistance of the king of England, painted them black and fitted them out with red sails, then launched a campaign of terror against the French king and French ships in the English Channel. (womensprizeforfiction.co.uk)
  • The French have developed a national art of creating wonderful dishes from the best ingredients since the origins of haute cuisine in the 17th century. (the-travelling-twins.com)
  • The love of French food, at last, overtook the English-speaking world in the 2oth century. (the-travelling-twins.com)
  • In the end, Spain could consider herself lucky that at the time there was plenty of competition between the English and the French, and the English were far more interested in having a second rate power control the opposite side of the Straits of the Gibraltar than France. (allempires.com)
  • For example, Gavin Maxwell, [2] in a footnote about the pederasty of a royal family, points out that sex play between men and boys "was never in any way considered abnormal or shameful," and the omnipresent existence of "Greek love" has been commented upon "either directly or obliquely by nearly every French writer on Morocco," who said that sexual relationships with boys were considered normal and a harmless convenience. (greek-love.com)
  • Morocco's current royal family, the Alaouites, dates from the 17th century. (factretriever.com)
  • Did you know that the cultivation of apples in Japan dates back to the 8th century CE when the fruit was brought to the country by Buddhist monks? (ivu.org)
  • Possible range of dates based on textual reference to date of 1741 and handwriting style.Manuscript copy of notes in English on proportion and the art of drawing the human body, excerpted from English translations of Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy's De arte graphica (The art of painting) and Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo's Trattato dell'arte della pittura (Treatise on the art of painting), and from William Cowper's The anatomy of humane bodies. (ucla.edu)
  • Morocco is one of the world's largest producers of illicit hashish. (factretriever.com)
  • James I of England sent John Harrison to Muley Zaydan in Morocco in 1610 and again in 1613 and 1615 in order to obtain the release of English captives. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Engel Gabriel was a Dutch ship scuttled by the English at the Battle of Portland in 1653, during the First Anglo-Dutch War, and a name very much in tune with the times in the 17th century. (thewreckoftheweek.com)
  • And the Taïa of the novel resembles the Taïa who has made himself known through public interviews, both in France and in Morocco, where he is something of a literary celebrity and countercultural icon. (bookforum.com)
  • Marie-France Cohen , co-founded of Bonpoint and Merci is the owner of this refined 17th century townhouse located in 7th arrondissement in Paris.The house is built around a leafy courtyard full of tangles of ivy and roses. (blogspot.com)
  • Spanish, English and Dutch all made their claims to the port at different times, but from the 17th century France had the most influence here. (shtandart.ru)
  • It went back and forth between France and Italy for the next few centuries. (avivadirectory.com)
  • The official language here is Letzeburgesch, nevertheless English is well-known and broadly spoken. (mapmonde.org)
  • Smaller towns where fewer people speak English are better for fully immersive experiences, as the locals are very supportive of people learning the language, help with pronunciation, and typically have more patience than Parisians. (gooverseas.com)
  • An Arabic name for Morocco, al-Magrib al-Aqsa , means "the extreme west" and attests to Morocco's place as the westernmost country in the Arab world. (factretriever.com)
  • The English word "genie" comes directly from the Arabic word djinn , denoting a spiritual being that may play some part in human affairs if called upon. (factretriever.com)
  • In the course of the next half-century, Ghalib and Gerard translated no less than 88 Arabic works of astronomy, mathematics, medicine, philosophy and logic, the very branches of learning which underpinned the great revival of scholarship in Europe referred to as the Twelfth Century Renaissance. (irfi.org)
  • Other translations from the Arabic at this period filled European libraries with a richness of learning impossible even to imagine a century before: editions of Aristotle, Euclid, Plato and Ptolemy, commentaries by Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and astrological texts by al-Khwarizmi, encyclopedias of astronomy, illustrated accounts of chess, and guides to precious stones and their medicinal qualities. (irfi.org)
  • an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English lan. (colonialsense.com)
  • an English legal writer. (colonialsense.com)
  • The cover of An Arab Melancholia describes Taïa as "the first openly gay autobiographical writer published in Morocco. (bookforum.com)
  • Writer and shop-owner Amanda Brooks relocated from busy New York to a more calmer lifestyle in the English countryside. (blogspot.com)
  • It's been a favorite fruit of people around the world for centuries. (ivu.org)
  • The large sheltered bay still attracts people today just like it did many centuries into the past. (shtandart.ru)
  • If you are ready to have a Soulful experience with Soul Adventure Morocco, then please fill in our booking form and we will get back to you as soon as possible! (souladventuremorocco.com)
  • Founded in the eighth century by Moulay Idris I, this imperial capital was a renowned centre of medieval learning. (abercrombiekent.com.au)
  • Built by Fatima Al-Fihri in the 8th century, it is one of the city's most admired monuments. (yaminatours.com)
  • Morocco is only 8 miles (13 km) from Europe, across the Strait of Gibraltar. (factretriever.com)
  • She was a key protagonist in the sixteenth-century struggles between Ottoman and the Christian empires in Spain and Portugal. (womensprizeforfiction.co.uk)
  • Morocco is the largest processor and exporter of sardines in the world. (factretriever.com)
  • Her home is exactly what you expect from an English country cottage. (blogspot.com)
  • Morocco is an amazing Arabian country on the territory of which there is a significant variety of places of interest. (mapmonde.org)
  • Regardless of the causes for Spain's interventions in Morocco after 1900, her military operations in the country were to lead to, perhaps, the most important war in Spain's modern history. (allempires.com)
  • Held in a gorgeous glade in the mountains east of Bend, Oregon, their shouts of "welcome home" and "love you," ecstatic drum circles and proclivity for hugs, psychedelics and Rainbow folk songs appeared unchanged by the intervening half century. (cinesourcemagazine.com)
  • A half-century later, however, it's pretty easy to see that, after the genocidal 1940s and the film-noir '50s, the hippies, musicians and mystics of the '60s delivered on the 19th century's romantic promises, bringing to the masses methods as well as visions of love, poetry, adventure and inner, spiritual freedom. (cinesourcemagazine.com)
  • In Morocco were kept a lot of wonderful buildings of the eighteen century, also in Morocco you can find monuments of modern art and sculpture. (mapmonde.org)