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Mers Sultan

arrondissement of Casablanca, Morocco

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 28, 2024
Entity authorityQ3306635 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mers Sultan (Arabic: مرس السلطان) is an arrondissement of Casablanca, in the Al Fida - Mers Sultan district of the Casablanca-Settat region of Morocco. As of 2004 it had 145,928 inhabitants.

Education

Groupe Scolaire Louis Massignon, a French international school, maintains one of its primary school campuses in Mers Sultan.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Mers Sultan” as arrondissement of Casablanca, Morocco. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mers, Sultan and arrondissement.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mers, Sultan and arrondissement providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Mers Sultan”, the useful work is to connect “arrondissement of Casablanca, Morocco” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 28, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q3306635. Authority coordinates are 33.574, -7.631. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2004.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Mers Sultan” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.