Mers El Kébir
…al-Marsā al-Kabīr, lit. 'The Great Harbor' ) is a port on the Mediterranean Sea, near Oran in Oran Province, northwest Algeria. It is famous for the attack on the French fleet in 1940, in the Second World War. Originally a Phoenician port, it was called Portus Divinus under the Roman presence, Mers-el-Kébir became an Almohad…