MAZAGAN (_El Jadida_), a port on the Atlantic coast of Morocco in 33°
16´ N. 8° 26´ W. Pop. (1908), about 12,000, of whom a fourth are Jews
and some 400 Europeans. It is the port for Marrákesh, from which it is
110 m. nearly due north, and also for the fertile province of Dukálla.
Mazagan presents from the sea a very un-Moorish appearance; it has
massive Portuguese walls of hewn stone. The exports, which include
beans, almonds, maize, chick-peas, wool, hides, wax, eggs, &c., were
valued at £360,000 in 1900, £364,000 in 1904, and £248,000 in 1906. The
imports (cotton goods, sugar, tea, rice, &c.) were valued at £280,000 in
1900, £286,000 in 1904, and £320,000 in 1906. About 46% of the trade is
with Great Britain and 34% with France. Mazagan was built in 1506 by the
Portuguese, who abandoned it to the Moors in 1769 and established a
colony, New Mazagan, on the shores of Para in Brazil.
See A. H. Dyé, "Les ports du Maroc" in _Bull. Soc. Geog. Comm. Paris_,
xxx. 325-332 (1908), and British consular reports.
MAZAMET, an industrial town of south-western France in the department of
Tarn, 41 m. S.S.E. of Albi by rail. Pop. (1906), town, 11,370; commune,
14,386. Mazamet is situated on the northern slope of the Montagnes
Noires and on the Arnette, a small sub-tributary of the Agout. Numerous
establishments are employed in wool-spinning and in the manufacture of
"swan-skins" and flannels, and clothing for troops, and hosiery, and
there are important tanneries and leather-dressing, glove and dye works.
Extensive commerce is carried on in wool and raw hides from Argentina,
Australia and Cape Colony.
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