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French Morocco

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noun

  1. a former French protectorate in NW Africa, united in 1956 with Spanish Morocco and Tangier to form the kingdom of Morocco

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By spring of 1943, Prewitt was on his way to French Morocco, Algiers and Libya where American troops worked in concert with English regiments to prepare to invade Sicily.

From Washington Times Jan. 18, 2020

At the age of 11, Vaira had to move again, to Casablanca in French Morocco.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2019

After war broke out in Europe, but before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Vincennes was dispatched to French Morocco to pick up a shipment of gold.

From Washington Times May 6, 2018

Spanish Morocco — a protectorate since 1912 , not to be confused with the plazas — was allowed to join French Morocco in independence a few months later.

From New York Times Jan. 3, 2012

The suppression of these interests was, in fact, a marked feature of the French Morocco policy, which was conspicuously anti-German.

From Germany and the Next War by Bernhardi, Friedrich von

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