Mers el Kebir (Algeria)

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Information for Authority record
Name (Hebrew)
מרס אל כביר (אלג'יר)
Name (Latin)
Mers el Kebir (Algeria)
Other forms of name
Mazalquivir (Algeria)
Coordinates
-0.706944444 -0.706944444 35.72861111 35.72861111 (gooearth )
Associated country
Algeria
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 151408810
Wikidata: Q31085
Library of congress: n 91077632
Sources of Information
  • 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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