Morocco has had a king ever since its establishment as a unified polity in the 700s C.E. It has never experienced any non-monarchical form of government, even though it has been under numerous different dyansties.
This is what my students wrote about some of our celebrations:
We are writing this article so as to describe some of our ceremonies.
There are many kinds of ceremonies:
1)Engagement: This ceremony is the first step before celebrating the wedding. The way this ceremony is carried out depends on traditions & customs of the town, but in general, the groom's family visits the bride's family and they take gifts and flowers with them.
When the guests arrive, the hosts meet them with flowers, milk and dates and they sit with each other and talk with the bride's parents so as to agree about the date of the wedding ceremony.
2)Marriage:We celebrate it in a big place, where there are many guests(from the groom's family, the bride's family& their neighbours) to whom a music band sings traditional as well as modern songs. People spend the night dancing and having fun.
Concerning the bride's clothes, she wears traditional ones like "Takchita, Caftan", and at the end of the ceremony she wears a white wedding dress like the one we see in most films. The groom generally wears two types of clothes a traditional "Jellaba" and a modern suit.
As for meals, guests eat pastilla, meat with dried prunes, chicken, dessert. They also have tea with several varieties of cookies…
3)Baptism: Seven days after the baby's birth; the family celebrates it by inviting relatives, cousins and neighbors and preparing food for them just like in a wedding. This is what my students wrote about some of our celebrations:
We are writing this article so as to describe some of our ceremonies.
There are many kinds of ceremonies:
1)Engagement: This ceremony is the first step before celebrating the wedding. The way this ceremony is carried out depends on traditions & customs of the town, but in general, the groom's family visits the bride's family and they take gifts and flowers with them.
When the guests arrive, the hosts meet them with flowers, milk and dates and they sit with each other and talk with the bride's parents so as to agree about the date of the wedding ceremony.
2)Marriage:We celebrate it in a big place, where there are many guests(from the groom's family, the bride's family& their neighbours) to whom a music band sings traditional as well as modern songs. People spend the night dancing and having fun.
Concerning the bride's clothes, she wears traditional ones like "Takchita, Caftan", and at the end of the ceremony she wears a white wedding dress like the one we see in most films. The groom generally wears two types of clothes a traditional "Jellaba" and a modern suit.
As for meals, guests eat pastilla, meat with dried prunes, chicken, dessert. They also have tea with several varieties of cookies…
3)Baptism: Seven days after the baby's birth, the family celebrates it by inviting relatives, cousins and neighbors and preparing food for them just like in a wedding.
Government type: constitutional monarchy.
Source= http://www.indexmundi.com/monaco/government_type.html
The Imazighen (Berbers) were the first to live in that area. Later Phoenicians came and then the Romans.
The Empire of Mali lasted from the thirteenth to the late fifteenth centuries. The great leader was Mansa Musa. However, his sons were unable to hold the kingdom together after his death. A result, Mali was taken over by the Songhai Empire.
Prince Moulay Abdallah of Morocco died in 1983.
The majority of the Moroccan flag is red. The red symbolizes courage, bravery, strength, and force. The green symbol is the middle symbolizes faith.
Of course you can. Spain actually borders Morocco, as there are two Spanish exclaves located on the African mainland. You can also take a ferry across the Strait of Gibraltar or fly.
help the British troops fight the Germans in Egypt
A direct flight from London to Casablanca is 3 hours 15 minutes. Of course, different flights from different areas of the UK and arriving in different places in Morocco may take more or less time as can flights with layovers. (For example, there is a twice weekly direct flight from Gibraltar to Tangier which takes 40 minutes.)
Egypt, with an estimated 2015 population of 88.5 million. The second most populous, Algeria, has less than half that number.
The currency of Honduras is the lempira which is subdivided into centavos. 100 centavos equal 1 lempira.
The "Lempira" is named after an Indian chief who died fighting against the Spanish during colonial times.
French is certainly a lingua franca in Morocco, but the main language is Derija Maghribiyya or the Moroccan Dialect of Arabic.
In 1962 after the Algerian Revolution was over, Ahmed Ben Bella became the first president of Algeria
yes tarantulas are in northern morocco because i visited there and seen one.
The capital city of Morocco is Rabat, built in 1146 AD by the Berber king Abd al-Mu'min of Almohad empire.
Although NOT the largest city, Rabat is Morocco's capital and 'Royal City'. Known nowadays as the 'Washington of North Africa', because of its parks, boulevards, monuments, embassies and government buildings, Rabat is also the seat of the Royal Family.
Rabat
Rabat is the capital city of Morocco.