Derb Sultan (Arabic: درب السلطان) is one of the largest and oldest
neighborhoods in
Casablanca
Casablanca (, ) is the largest city in Morocco and the country's economic and business centre. Located on the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast of the Chaouia (Morocco), Chaouia plain in the central-western part of Morocco, the city has a populatio ...
. It is part of the prefecture of district
Al Fida-Mers Sultan. It is known for being one of the cradles of colonial resistance against the
French protectorate in
Morocco
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. During the 1930s and 1940s, Derb Sultan knew a vast wave of migration coming from other
Moroccan regions, especially the regions of
Souss and
Draa in the south.
This district is known to be the place where
Moroccan unions were founded, on March 20 1949 in the small café of Ba'saleh, one of the most famous
Arab
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Arabs have been in the Fertile Crescent for thousands of years ...
and African clubs, the
Raja Club Athletic.
References
Neighbourhoods of Casablanca
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