Agadir
This article describes the Moroccan city of Agadir; for the eponymous storage castle, see Agadir (storage castle); for the ship of the same name, see Prince Hamlet (ship, 1969).
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Agadir (from Taschelhit ⴰⴳⴰⴷⵉⵔ agadir, German 'Speicherburg'; Arabic أكادير) is a port city on the Atlantic Ocean in southern Morocco, about 500 km south of Casablanca with 698,310 inhabitants (2014 calculation). Agadir is the capital of the prefecture of Agadir-Ida ou Tanane and the Souss-Massa region.
Geography
Agadir is located at the mouth of the river Oued Souss into the Atlantic Ocean.
The climate is dry and warm all year round, with temperatures averaging around 22 °C. Fresh gusts of wind occasionally occur.
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History
Agadir was founded in 1505 by Portuguese sailors. In 1541 the Saadians conquered the city. In 1751, King Frederick V of Denmark attempted - ultimately unsuccessfully - to establish Danish bases in present-day Agadir (Santa Cruz do Cabo de Gué or Cabo de Aguer) and Safi by concluding a treaty of friendship and trade with Mulai Muhammad, the governor of Marrakech.
In 1911, at the height of Franco-German tensions and rivalries over Morocco, Germany dispatched the gunboats SMS Panther and SMS Eber and the small cruiser SMS Berlin to Agadir. The incident, which became known as the Panther jump to Agadir and nearly led to a major European war, prompted France to declare Morocco a French protectorate in 1912 (the November 1912 Protectorate Treaty divided it into the protectorates of French Morocco and Spanish Morocco (in the north); see History of Morocco for details).
Swiss Quarter
On the evening of February 29, 1960, the city was devastated by an earthquake, killing some 10,000 to 15,000 people. Apart from the Kasbah (240 meters above sea level), Agadir therefore has few historical buildings today. Many nations helped Agadir to rebuild. Switzerland even built up a whole quarter ("Swiss quarter").
In 1975, Morocco's worst plane crash to date occurred outside the city, killing 188 people.
Villa
Portal
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