Spanish Morocco

British  

noun

1. a former Spanish colony on the N coast of Morocco: part of the kingdom of Morocco since 1956

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Example Sentences

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

For centuries, on the barren brown mountains that were once a part of Spanish Morocco, the Riffs have lived, a sturdy Berber breed whose way of life was war.

From Time Magazine Archive

Within a day the rebels controlled all Spanish Morocco, a 200-mile strip of coast across from Gibraltar.

From Time Magazine Archive

As long as Fascist Premier Franco ran Spain, sullen, uncertain Spanish Morocco would pin down a certain number of watchful Allied troops.

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