Dar al-Bayda or Casablanca is the largest city in Morocco with over 3.7 million people. The Westernized name most likely came about from Portuguese sailors who could see a white tower, Casa Branca, from the sea. Most likely they were trading with the Arab port which led to colonization and control under a joint Portuguese-Spanish regime. That all ended with the bang of the 1755 Earthquake which devastated the city. Sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah brought it back to life, but colonialization wasn’t far behind as the British got in the game in the Industrial era. The French got into the exploitation game at the start of the 20th century and only relinquished their grip in early 1961. Since then the city has become the financial powerhouse of the nation, but the French influence is still extant as expressed by this cover’s motif and its foundry Tabors, which is a word for a group of Moroccan “irregular” soldiers hired by the Colonial armies. The radial motif has diamond shapes and arced segments that surround a hexagon with an added city symbology in its core.