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Fez

(Encyclopedia)Fez: see Fès, Morocco.

Fas

(Encyclopedia)Fas: see Fès, Morocco.

Mogador

(Encyclopedia)Mogador: see Essaouira, Morocco. ...

Oudjda

(Encyclopedia)Oudjda: see Oujda, Morocco.

Marrakesh

(Encyclopedia)Marrakesh, Morocco: see Marrakech. ...

Wazzan

(Encyclopedia)Wazzan, Morocco: see Ouezzane.

Saffi

(Encyclopedia)Saffi: see Safi, Morocco.

Tetuán

(Encyclopedia)Tetuán: see Tétouan, Morocco.

Aubusson, Pierre d'

(Encyclopedia)Aubusson, Pierre d' pyĕr dōbüsôNˈ [key], 1423–1503, French soldier, a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, and grand master of the Knights Hospitalers (1476–1503). In 1480 he valiantly defe...

Ahmed III

(Encyclopedia)Ahmed III, 1673–1736, Ottoman sultan (1703–30), brother and successor of Mustafa II to the throne of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey). He gave asylum to Charles XII of Sweden and to Mazepa after Peter ...