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LARAISH (El Araish)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 209 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LARAISH (El Araish) , a See also:port in See also:northern See also:Morocco on the See also:Atlantic See also:coast in 350 13' N., 6° 9 W., 43 M. by See also:sea S. by W. of See also:Tangier, picturesquely situated on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:estuary of the See also:Wad Lekkus. Pop. 6000 to 7000. The See also:river, being fairly deep inside the See also:bar, made this a favourite port for the See also:Salli rovers to See also:winter in, but the quantity of alluvial See also:soil brought down threatens to See also:close the port. The See also:town is well situated for See also:defence, its walls are in See also:fair See also:condition, and it has ten forts, all supplied with old-fashioned guns. Traces of the See also:Spanish occupation from 1610–1689 are to be seen in the towers whose names are given by See also:Tissot as those of St See also:Stephen, St See also:James and that of the See also:Jews, with the See also:Castle of Our See also:Lady of See also:Europe, now the kasbah or citadel. The most remarkable feature of Laraish is its See also:fine large See also:market-See also:place inside the town with a See also:low See also:colonnade in front of very small shops. The streets, though narrow and steep, are generally paved. Its See also:chief exports are oranges, See also:millet, dra and other cereals, See also:goat-See also:hair and skins, sheepskins, See also:wool and fullers' See also:earth. The wool goes chiefly to See also:Marseilles. The See also:annual value of the See also:trade is from £400,000 to £500,000. In 178o all the Europeans in Laraish were expelled by Mohammed XVI., although in 1786 the See also:monopoly of its trade had been granted to See also:Holland, even its export of See also:wheat.

In 1787 the See also:

Moors were still See also:building pirate vessels here, the See also:timber for which came from the neighbouring See also:forest of M'amora. Not far from the town are the remains of what is believed to be a Phoenician See also:city, Shammish, mentioned by See also:Idrisi, who makes no allusion to Laraish. It is not, however, improbable from a passage in Scylax that the site of the See also:present town was occupied by a Libyan See also:settlement. 'Tradition also connects Laraish with the See also:garden of the See also:Hesperides, `Ariisi being the Arabic for " See also:pleasure-gardens," and the " See also:golden apples " perhaps the See also:familiar oranges.

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