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Spanish Protectorate In Morocco
The Spanish protectorate in Morocco ; es, Protectorado español de Marruecos, links=no, was established on 27 November 1912 by a treaty between France and Spain that converted the Spanish sphere of influence in Morocco into a formal protectorate. The Spanish protectorate consisted of a northern strip on the Mediterranean and the Strait of Gibraltar, and a southern part of the protectorate around Cape Juby, bordering the Spanish Sahara. The northern zone became part of independent Morocco on 7 April 1956, shortly after France ceded its protectorate (French Morocco). Spain finally ceded its southern zone through the Treaty of Angra de Cintra on 1 April 1958, after the short Ifni War. The city of Tangier was excluded from the Spanish protectorate and received a special internationally controlled status as Tangier International Zone. Since France already held a protectorate over most of the country and had controlled Morocco's foreign affairs since 30 March 1912, it also held ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Treaty Between France And Spain Regarding Morocco
The Treaty between France and Spain regarding Morocco was signed on 27 November 1912 by French Third Republic, French and Restoration (Spain), Spanish heads of state, establishing ''de jure'' a Spanish Zone of influence in northern and southern Morocco, both zones being ''de facto'' under Spanish control,Treaty Between France and Spain Regarding Morocco', in: The American Journal of International Law, vol.7, no.2, Apr. 1913 while France was still regarded as the protecting power as it was the sole occupying power to sign the Treaty of Fez. The northern part was to become the zone of the Spanish protectorate in Morocco with its capital in Tetuan, while the Cape Juby, southern part was ruled from El Aiun as a buffer zone between the Spanish Spanish Sahara, Colony of Rio de Oro and French Protectorate in Morocco, French Morocco. Signing The treaty was signed by the Spanish Manuel García Prieto, Marquis of Alhucemas, García Prieto and the French ambassador Léon Geoffray at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felipe Alfau Mendoza
Felipe Alfau Mendoza ( – 1937) was a Spanish military officer. He served as the first Spanish High Commissioner in Morocco and as Captain-General of Catalonia. Biography Born in Santo Domingo, son to the Dominican ''trinitario'' Felipe Alfau y Bustamante and Rosa Josefa Mendoza Pineda. Leader of the first brigade of Jägers of Melilla, he was promoted to division general in 1910. After the 1912 Treaty of Fes and the entry in Tétouan of the Spanish forces commanded by Alfau on 19 February 1913, he became the first High Commissioner of the newly created Spanish protectorate in Morocco on 5 April 1913. He left the post on 15 August 1913, when he was replaced by José Marina Vega. Later, he was appointed as Captain General of Catalonia, in 1915. Alfau—who, according Francisco J. Romero Salvadó did not take the Defence Juntas seriously— was fired on 27 May 1916 in the context of the 1917 military crisis, and was replaced again by the General Marina. He died in Casab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish–American War
, partof = the Philippine Revolution, the decolonization of the Americas, and the Cuban War of Independence , image = Collage infobox for Spanish-American War.jpg , image_size = 300px , caption = (clockwise from top left) , date = April 21 – August 13, 1898() , place = , casus = , result = American victory *Treaty of Paris (1898), Treaty of Paris of 1898 *Founding of the First Philippine Republic and beginning of the Philippine–American War * German–Spanish Treaty (1899), Spain sells to Germany the last colonies in the Pacific in 1899 and end of the Spanish Empire in Spanish colonization of the Americas, America and Asia. , territory = Spain relinquishes sovereignty over Cuba; cedes Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippine Islands to the United States. $20 million paid to Spain by the United States for infrastructure owned by Spain. , combatant1 = United State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
