Spanish Morocco
Britishnoun
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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
Less stoically, shaken aides hustled the protesting Generalissimo off to a Spanish air force hospital for his first in-patient treatment since 1916, when Riff rebels wounded him in the stomach in Spanish Morocco.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1493 Pope Alexander VI issued a bull dividing the overseas world between Spain and Portugal; today Spain holds Spanish Morocco, and such fruitless African enclaves as Rio de Oro.
From Time Magazine Archive
A constant, silent threat was the Rif territory of Spanish Morocco, lying squarely behind the Allied lines and along the Straits of Gibraltar.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had spent some time in Java, some years in Spanish Morocco, and the year of 1935 living in a villa at Estoril, the beach resort outside of Lisbon.
From The Five Arrows by Chase, Allan
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