Agadir

American  

[ah-gah-deer] / ˌɑ gɑˈdɪər /

noun

1. a seaport in SW Morocco: destroyed by earthquake in 1960; new town rebuilt S of original site.

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Agadir British  

/ ˌæɡəˈdɪə /

noun

1. a port in SW Morocco, which became the centre of an international crisis (1911), when a gunboat arrived to protect German interests. Britain issued a strong warning to Germany but the French negotiated and war was averted. In 1960 the town was virtually destroyed by an earthquake, about 10 000 people being killed. Pop: 385 000 (2003)

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Agadir

The sources said the incidents took place in Ait Amira, near Agadir.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2025

Anger had been growing, but what galvanised the movement was the death over a number of days in mid-September of eight women in a maternity ward of a hospital in the southern city of Agadir.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025

He was just 8 and asleep when a large earthquake struck Morocco in 1960, wiping out entire neighborhoods in the coastal city of Agadir, near the Atlas Mountains, and killing at least 12,000 people.

From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2023

Morocco’s deadliest quake was a magnitude 5.8 temblor in 1960 that struck near the city of Agadir, killing at least 12,000.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 11, 2023

From the time of the Markgrafen even unto the Agadir incident it has been characteristic of Prussia to extend her boundaries and interests under the plea of military necessity.

From The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe by Various

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