Ordre du Nichan El-Anouar

Ordre du Nichan El-Anouar
	Awarded by France
Type	Order with five degrees:; Grand-croix (grand cross); Grand officier (grand officer); Commandeur (commander); Officier (officer) ; Chevalier (knight)
Status	Deprecated 3 December 1963 by the Ordre National du Mérite
Statistics
Established	October 1887
Precedence
Next (higher)	Médaille militaire
Equivalent	Ordre National du Mérite
Next (lower)	Croix de guerre

The Ordre du Nichan El-Anouar (Arabic: Order of the Light) was established in 1887 as a colonial order of merit of the Tajurah sultanate in French Somaliland.

JM Abdul Aziz (center medal)

Notable recipients

François Doumenge
Louis Faidherbe
Henri Gouraud
H.M.Cassime (H.Mouhamad Cassime, Past Mayor and President of Chambre de Commerce of Pondicherry)
JM Abdul Aziz of Saigon and South India.

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gollark: I can only imagine.

gollark: In CC anyway.

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gollark: https://github.com/SquidDev-CC/CC-Tweaked/blob/master/src/main/resources/assets/computercraft/lua/bios.lua#L5-L51

References

Marc Champenois (9 August 2008). "Ordre du Nichan el-Anouar". Les décorations Francaises (in French). Retrieved 2009-02-06.

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