Chefchaouene (Morocco)

LC control no.	n 97112398
Descriptive conventions	rda
Geographic heading	Chefchaouene (Morocco) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Geographic subdivision usage	Morocco--Chefchaouene
Variant(s)	Ashawen (Morocco) Chaouèn (Morocco) Chauen (Morocco) Chechaouèn (Morocco) Chechaouene (Morocco) Chefchaouen (Morocco) Chefchauen (Morocco) Chichaouene (Morocco) Ech Chaouene (Morocco) Scheschauen (Morocco) Shafshāwan (Morocco) Shafshāwin (Morocco) Ville de Chechaouèn (Morocco) Xauen (Morocco) Xexauen (Morocco) شفشاون (Morocco)
Other standard no.	2553455 1091368 126842191 Q676778
Associated country	Morocco
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Found in	Phone call to BGN, 11-03-97 (Chefchaouene; ppl; variants: Chechaouene; Chechaouèn; Ville de Chechaouèn; Xexauen; Ech Chaouene; Chaouèn; Chichaouene; Scheschauen; Xauen; Chauen; coordinates: 35 ̊10 ́ N; 5 ̊1 ́ W) Phone call to the Embassy of Morocco, 11-04-97 (Arabic form: Shafshāwin; city in Morocco) GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (ppl; 35°10ʹ12ʺN 005°15ʹ36ʺW) December 20, 2021 (35°10ʹ08ʺN 005°15ʹ49ʺW) Wikipedia, December 20, 2021 (Chefchaouen (Arabic: شفشاون‎ = Shafshāwin; Shafshāwan [in roman]; Berber languages: Ashawen [in roman]), also known as Chaouen, is a city in northwest Morocco. It is the chief town of the province of the same name; 35°10ʹ17ʺN 5°16ʹ11ʺW) Britannica online, December 20, 2021 (Chefchaouene, also called Chechaouene or Chechaouen, French Chaouen, Spanish Xauen, town, northern Morocco, situated in the Rif mountain range. Founded as a holy city in 1471 by the warrior Abū Youma and later moved by Sīdī ʻAlī ibn Rashīd to its present site at the base of Mount El-Chaouene, it became a refuge for Moors expelled from Spain) Lasquetti, Juan de. Chefchauen : información hecha el año 1918.
Geographic area code	f-mr---