Mauretania

American

[mawr-i-tey-nee-uh] / ˌmɔr ɪˈteɪ ni ə /

Or Mauritania

noun

an ancient kingdom in NW Africa: it included the territory that is modern Morocco and part of Algeria.

Mauretania British

/ ˌmɒrɪˈteɪnɪə /

noun

an ancient region of N Africa, corresponding approximately to the N parts of modern Algeria and Morocco

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Mauretanian adjective

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It is known as the "friendliest port", which stems from an occasion on Wednesday 6 July 1935, when RMS Mauretania sailed past Amble on her final voyage, en route to the docks at Rosyth to be broken up.

From BBC

The clerk to Amble Urban Council sent the captain of the Mauretania a message of greeting:

From BBC

"Amble to Mauretania. Greetings from Amble, last port in England, to still the finest ship on the seas".

From BBC

"Mauretania to Urban Council, Amble, to the last and kindliest port in England, greetings and thanks. Mauretania."

From BBC

Also in the book: the Mauretania, a low-rise apartment building designed in 1934 by Milton J. Black in a Streamline Moderne style that references the British luxury liner of that name, which set a transatlantic speed record in 1909.

From Los Angeles Times

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