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Ordre du Nichan El Anouar

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Established
  
October 1887

Next (lower)
  
Croix de guerre

Next (higher)
  
Médaille militaire

Ordre du Nichan El-Anouar

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

Equivalent
  
Ordre National du Mérite

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.

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.

    • References

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