Mers el Kebir (Algeria)
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Name (Hebrew)
מרס אל כביר (אלג'יריה)
Name (Latin)
Mers el Kebir (Algeria)
Other forms of name
Mers el Kabir (Algeria)
Mazalquivir (Algeria)
Coordinates
-0.706944444 -0.706944444 35.72861111 35.72861111 (gooearth )
Associated country
Algeria
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- BGN gaz., Algeria, 1972(Mers el Kebir, ppl., 35°44ʹN, 0°43ʹW)
- GeoNames search via WWW, Dec. 18, 2014(Mers el Kebir; ppl. in Oran; 35°44ʹN, 0°42ʹW; var.: Mers el Kabir)
- Operation Catapult, 2026:CIP t.p. (British attack on the French Navy at Mers-el-Kébir) galley (British Royal Navy attacked/destroyed the French fleet docked in Mers-el-Kébir, July 3, 1940)
- Real cedula de S.M. y señores del Consejo, por la qual se manda guardar y cumplir el real decreto inserto, en que se manifiestan los fundamentos y motivos para el abandono..., 1792:cover (Mazalquivir)
- Spanish Wikipedia, viewed Dec. 18, 2014(Mazalquivir; in Arabic, Mers el-Kebir; port on Algeria's Gulf of Oran; became Spanish possession in 1708; sold to Bey of Algiers in 1792)
- Ferrara, J. Mers el Kebir, 1989.
- BGN gaz., Algeria, 1972(Mers el Kebir, ppl., 35p0s44ʹN, 0p0s43ʹW)
Wikipedia description:
Mers El Kébir (Arabic: المرسى الكبير, romanized: al-Marsā al-Kabīr, lit. 'The Great Harbor' ) is a port on the Mediterranean Sea, near Oran in Oran Province, northwest Algeria. It is famous for the attack on the French fleet in 1940, in the Second World War.
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