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Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (July 2007) | Greater Morocco is a label used predominantly by critical sources, largely in discussing the disputed Western Sahara to describe official and unofficial Moroccan claims on territories viewed by Moroccans as having been under some form of Moroccan sovereignty before the colonial era. Generally only seen in certain European language discussions, the term is not used in Arabic, not established in the Moroccan public opinion and not used by Moroccan authorities or parties. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1799x736, 51 KB) Summary 3 different types of maps often used to show Morocco. ...
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In the early stages of decolonisation certain Moroccan political actors, in particular some members of the Istiqlal party, like Allal al-Fassi, in the first years of Morocco's independence, were in favour of claiming wider territories historically associated in some way with the Moroccan Sultan. This was initially not supported by Sultan (later king) of Morocco.[1] Al-Fassi's ambitions gained more support in the beginning of the sixties, leading to a delay in the recognition of Mauritania.[2] The Independence Party (Istiqlal) Founded in the 1940s, Istiqlal is the nationalist party of Morocco. ...
Muhammad Allal al-Fassi (b. ...
Al-Fassi's wider claims were effectively abandoned in the later sixties, although Morocco claims the Western Sahara and the Spanish enclaves on its northern coast, Ceuta and Melilla. Morocco's refusal to accept its post-colonial borders in the case of Western Sahara has put it on a collision course with the African Union, which holds this as one of its principles. As a consequence, Morocco is the only African country not part of the union, while the government in exile, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic has a seat. [3] This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Capital Ceuta City Official language(s) Spanish Area – Total – % of Spain Ranked 28 km² Population – Total (2006) – % of Spain – Density Ranked 75,861 2,709. ...
Capital Official language(s) Spanish Area – Total – % of Spain Ranked 20 km² Population – Total (2006) – % of Spain – Density Ranked 66,871 3,343. ...
Anthem Let Us All Unite and Celebrate Together [1] Administrative Centre Largest city Cairo, Egypt Working languages Arabic English French Portuguese Swahili Membership 53 African states Leaders - Chairman John Kufuor - Alpha Oumar Konaré Establishment - as the OAU May 25, 1963 - as the African Union July 9, 2002 Area - Total 29...
Motto: Øرية ديمقراطية ÙˆØدة (Arabic) Liberty, Democracy, Unity Anthem: YÄbaniy Es-SaharÄ listen This map indicates the territory claimed by the SADR, viz. ...
After Moroccan independence in 1956 and the death of King Mohammed V, the government of King Hassan II laid claim on several territories, successfully (re)acquiring the Tarfaya Strip (after the Ifni War with Spain) and much of the territory between Ceuta and Melilla, as well as the Saharan territories. A car from 1956 Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Sultan Mohammed V of Morocco visiting Lawrence Livermore Lab, United States, in 1957 Mohammed V (August 10, 1909–February 26, 1961) was Sultan of Morocco from 1927 to 1953 and 1955 to 1961. ...
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The southernmost region in Morocco, the Tarfaya Strip was one of the last holdings in current-day Morocco ceeded by the Spanish before Moroccan integration. ...
The Ifni War, also known as the 1957 Invasion of Spanish Sahara and, in Spain, the Forgotten War (la Guerra Ignorada), was a series of armed incursions into Spanish West Africa by Moroccan insurgents and indigenous Sahrawi rebels that began in October 1957 and culminated with the abortive siege of...
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- ^ Douglas E. Ashford, Johns Hopkins University, The Irredendist Appeal in Morocco and Mauritania, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 5, 1962-12, p. 641-651, p.645 "The sole advocate of "total liberation" was Allal al-Fassi, who refused to enter France even to meet with his Monarch or long-standing nationalist colleagues."
- ^ Douglas E. Ashford, p. 646
- ^ Greater Morocco
Muhammad Allal al-Fassi (b. ...
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