Ifni
Americannoun
noun
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No sooner had the King departed for his visit to the U.S. than the irregulars assembled a motley force of some 1,200 townsmen and tribesmen and launched an attack on Ifni.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only 100 mi. from Ifni, where the former warship Delphin was theoretically bound last week, is the harbor of Agadir.
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
Guerrillas of the old Moroccan Army of Liberation, no longer occupied with fighting the French, moved into the scrublands around the Ifni frontier.
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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