Marrakesh plans for the construction of a 450 million dirham military hospital in Marrakesh. Marrakesh is twinned with: Marrakesh Marrakesh ( or ; "Murrākuš"; "Meṛṛakec"), also known by the French spelling Marrakech, is a major city of the Kingdom of Morocco. It is the fourth largest city in the country, after Casablanca, Fez and Tangier. It is the capital city of the mid-southwestern region of Marrakesh-Safi. Located to the north of the foothills of the snow-capped Atlas Mountains, Marrakesh is situated southwest of Tangier, southwest of the Moroccan capital of Rabat, south of Casablanca, and northeast of Agadir. Marrakesh is possibly
Bombing of Casablanca (1907) workers aboard—4 French, 3 Italian, and 2 Spanish. Following the insurrection of July 30, 1907, thousands of warriors from the Chaouia, apparently allied with Ma al-'Aynayn, took Casablanca. France, surprised due to poor intelligence, urgently sent for a fleet, which left from Algeria. Saint Aulaire, the diplomat in charge of the French Legation in Tangier, under instruction from Paris, called a number of warships to Casablanca, including: the Linois class cruiser Galilée which was dispatched from Tangier that very night and which arrived on August 1, the cruiser Du Chayla which arrived on August 4 from Toulon.The morning of August