Larache

• Location: Morocco
• Variant names: al-Araish

Originally the site of a Phoenician trading post, the name means 'The Huts' from a Spanish corruption of the Arabic al-'arā᾽ish 'from al- and the plural of 'arīsh 'hut'. It was a Spanish possession in 1610–89 and 1921–56.

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