Annual or Anoual (
Berber language: Anwal) is a small town in northeastern
Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...
about 60 km west of
Nador. There, during the
Rif War or
War of Melilla, on July 22, 1921, the
Spanish army suffered a grave military defeat against the
Rifian Berber army, known as the
Battle of Annual.
References
Populated places in Driouch Province
Colonial history of Morocco
1921 in Morocco
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