SALE

coastal city, southeastern Victoria, Australia. It lies along the Thomson River near the latter's junction with the Macalister. Sale is the major regional centre for East Gippsland, an irrigated area of intensive farming and livestock raising. Founded in 1845, the settlement was named after Sir Robert (Fighting Bob) Sale, a British general who fought in India. It grew as an early river port and became successively a borough (1863), town (1924), and city (1950). Sale is connected to Melbourne (115 miles west) by rail and is on the Gippsland and Prince's highways. Its industries include foundry and joinery working, plastics and other manufacturing, and a gas absorption plant fed from the gas field in Bass Strait with a pipe link to Melbourne. The city is near the Gippsland Lakes (lagoons) and the Ninety Mile Beach of the south coast, and tourism is an added source of income. It is also an educational centre and the seat of Anglican and Roman Catholic bishoprics. Pop. (1989 est.) 13,800. Arabic Sla, old walled city on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. It lies at the mouth of the Wadi Bou Regreg, opposite Rabat. Founded in the 10th century, it reached its zenith as a medieval merchant port and entrept. After 1627 Salwith Rabat as its vassalbecame the corsair republic of Bou Regreg and the base for the notorious Sallee Corsairs, the most dreaded of the Barbary pirates; because of this, it was frequently bombarded by European naval squadrons. The two communities grew together until the right bank of the Wadi Bou Regreg silted up and Sal port was closed. The city is a concentration of mosques and mausoleums; the most venerated sanctuary is the tomb of Sidi 'Abd Allah ibn Hasan, Sal's patron saint. Pop. (1982) 289,391.