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Africa's door to Europe, close enough to see it, far enough to stay itself.
means A country in northwest Africa — and also a fine, grained leather originally made from goatskin, tanned with sumac.
from The country's name traces through French and Spanish back to Marrakesh, its old imperial capital, via Arabic and Berber roots — so 'Morocco' is really a European mispronunciation of one city standing in for the whole land. The leather sense rides the same name: it was goatskin leather first crafted in the region and traded north through Moroccan ports, so Europeans simply called the stuff after where it came from.
- distance to spain
- just 14 km across the strait
- first to recognize
- first country to recognize the us, 1777
- languages spoken
- arabic, amazigh, french, and spanish all compete
- never colonized fully
- romans, arabs, french all visited, none erased it