Ifni
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Both at Ifni and in Spanish West Africa farther down the coast, the little war showed signs of spreading last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
The government admitted that the Spanish defenders had abandoned the frontier outposts to the invading Moroccan irregulars, and had drawn back to regroup around the town of Sidi Ifni itself.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week the Madrid government finally permitted its tightly controlled press to report that the Spanish garrison at Ifni had taken a beating.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Morocco, growing confident in its new nationhood, last August asked Franco to give Ifni back.
From Time Magazine Archive
There arrived in this country at the beginning of the year another ship which stopped at a place called Ifni, in the tribe of Ait-Bamouran, and stayed there three days.
From Moorish Literature by Basset, René
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