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Ifni

American  
[eef-nee] / ˈif ni /

noun

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


Ifni British  
/ ˈifni /

noun

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

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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

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

Goulimine's mayor, the governor of nearby Tiznit, and most other Moroccan officials around Ifni are former Liberation Army leaders.

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