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| Ordre du Nichan El-Anouar | |
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| Type | Order with five degrees: Grand-Croix (Grand-Cross) Grand-Officier (Grand-Officer) Commandeur (Commander) Officier (Officer) Chevalier (Knight) |
| Presented by |  France |
| Status | Deprecated 3 December 1963 by the Ordre National du Mérite |
| 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 Tadjourah Sultanate in French Somaliland and abolished as a result of the order reform on 3 December 1963.