History of Casablanca control of Casablanca was not formalised until 1910. It was especially during the years of military governor Hubert Lyautey that Casablanca became Morocco's economic center and Africa's biggest harbour. The famous 1942 film "Casablanca" underlined the city's colonial status at the time—depicting it as the scene of a power struggle between competing European powers, carried out without any reference to the local population, and with the film's vast cosmoplitan cast of characters (American, French, German, Czech and some other nationalities) including not a single Arab. During the 1940s and 1950s, Casablanca was a major centre of anti-French rioting. A terrorist
Grand Casablanca Benslimane, Berrechid and Settat from the region of Chaouia-Ouardigha to form the new region of Casablanca-Settat. The region was bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and by the region of Chaouia-Ouardigha on the other three sides. The last wāli or governor of Greater Casablanca was Mohammed Kabbaj. The Wilaya of Greater Casablanca consisted of two prefectures and two provinces: Grand Casablanca Grand Casablanca or Greater Casablanca (Arabic: الدار البيضاء الكبرى; Amazigh: "Tamnaḍt Tameqqṛant n Anfa") was one of the sixteen former regions of Morocco that existed from 1997 to 2015. Located in coastal northwestern Morocco, it was the