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
Olympique de Casablanca Olympique de Casablanca Club Olympique de Casablanca () or CO Casablanca for a short, is a defunct Moroccan football club that was based in Casablanca. The club played its home games at the "Stade du COC" The club was founded in 1904 under the name of CRUSH Casablanca. It changed the name after into CSNAC Casablanca and in the 1980s into CLAS Casablanca (Centrale Laitière Association Sportive de Casablanca). In 1991, it took the name of Club Olympique de Casablanca but in 1995, the club was dissolved by merging with Raja Casablanca. However many other sections still yet play such