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 | | In the 19th century, the area's population began to grow as Casablanca became a major supplier of wool to the booming textile industry in Britain and shipping traffic increased (the British, in return, began importing Morocco's now famous national drink, gunpowder tea). |
 | | By the 1860s, there were around 4,000 residents, and the population grew to around 9,000 by the late 1880s [Pennel, CR: Morocco from Empire to Independence, Oneworld, Oxford, 2003, p 121]. |
 | | Casablanca remained a modestly-sized port, with a population reaching around 12,000 within a few years of the French conquest and arrival of French colonialists in the town, at first administrators within a sovereign sultanate, in 1906. |
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