Ifni

American  

[eef-nee] / ˈif ni /

noun

1. a former Spanish enclave on the W coast of Morocco, ceded to Morocco 1969.

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Ifni British  

/ ˈifni /

noun

1. a former Spanish province in S Morocco, on the Atlantic: returned to Morocco in 1969

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Example Sentences

Morocco drove the Spanish from Tarfaya in the small Ifni war of 1958 and about two decades later, as Spain quit nearby Western Sahara, it marched into the territory where an Algeria-backed independence movement seeks a sovereign state.

From Reuters

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

Even more disturbing to Spanish pride were reports of restive stirrings in Melilla and Ceuta, the two cities on Morocco's Mediterranean coast that the Spanish hold and intend to hold, come what may at Ifni and in the south.

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

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