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5 de fev. de 2013 · A secret Franco-Spanish agreement of 1904 acknowledged Spain’s “historic” claim to the entire north of Morocco, with the exception of Tangier, whose “special” character was recognized by the Great Powers in the 1906 Treaty of Algeciras. In the final division of Moroccan spoils between France and Spain in November 1912, Tangier’s ...
Pacification of Morocco (1907–1927). The French conquest of Morocco [a] began with the French Republic occupying the city of Oujda in 29 March 1907. The French launched campaigns against the Sultanate of Morocco which culminated in the signing of the Treaty of Fes and establishment of the French Protectorate in Morocco on 30 March 1912.
During times of the Caliphate of Cordoba as well as the Emirate of Granada, Ceuta and/or Melilla belonged to Al-Andalus.. The plazas de soberanía (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈplaθas ðe soβeɾaˈni.a], lit. "strongholds of sovereignty") are a series of Spanish overseas minor territories scattered along the Mediterranean coast bordering Morocco in Africa, or that are closer to Africa than Europe.
The southern protectorate area of Tarfaya was handed back to Morocco in 1958, while the Spanish unconditionally gave up Ifni in 1970, hoping to gain recognition of their rights to Melilla and Ceuta. Ceuta, on the Strait of Gibraltar , and Melilla, farther east on the Mediterranean coast, continue to be Spanish presidios on Moroccan soil, both with overwhelmingly Spanish populations.
Since France already held a protectorate over most of the country and had controlled Morocco's foreign affairs since 30 March 1912, it also held the power to delegate a zone to Spanish protection. The surface area of the zone was about 20,948 km 2 (8,088 sq mi), which represents 4.69% of modern-day Morocco.
History. Map of the Spanish Morocco in 1925, showing the Tangier zone in dark brown color. During World War II, the Tangier International Zone was invaded and occupied by Francoist Spain. On 14 June 1940, a few days after the Italian declaration of war after the German invasion of France, Spain seized the opportunity and, amid the collapse of ...
The work The Spanish Protectorate in Morocco: the transcended history, sponsored by Iberdrola to mark the centenary of the establishment of the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco, sets out to analyse and explain this important period between 1912 and 1956. Its 1,500 pages explore the period from a political, military, legal, social and cultural ...