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The recorded history of Morocco begins with the Phoenician colonization of the Moroccan coast between the 8th and 6th centuries BCE, [3] although the area was inhabited by indigenous Berbers for some two thousand years before that.
The Alawi Sultanate, [4] [a] officially known as the Sharifian Sultanate (Arabic: السلطنة الشريفة) and as the Sultanate of Morocco, was the state ruled by the 'Alawi dynasty over what is now Morocco, from their rise to power in the 1660s to the 1912 Treaty of Fes that marked the start of the French protectorate.
The French protectorate in Morocco, [4] also known as French Morocco, was the period of French colonial rule in Morocco that lasted from 1912 to 1956. [5] The protectorate was officially established 30 March 1912, when Sultan Abd al-Hafid signed the Treaty of Fez, though the French military occupation of Morocco had begun with the invasion of Oujda and the bombardment of Casablanca in 1907.
This is a list of rulers of Morocco since 789. The common and formal titles of these rulers has varied, depending on the time period. Since 1957, the designation King has been used.
The National Union of the Students of Morocco—a nationalist, anti-colonial student group affiliated with Mehdi Ben Barka's party, the National Union of Popular Forces—overtly opposed and criticized Hassan II. [52] [53] The riots were repressed with tanks deployed for two days, and General Mohamed Oufkir fired on the crowd from a helicopter ...
English Tangier was the period in Moroccan history in which the city of Tangier was occupied by England as part of its colonial empire from 1661 to 1684. Tangier had been under Portuguese control before Charles II of England acquired the city as part of the dowry when he married the Portuguese infanta Catherine.
This article describes the process by which the territorial extent of Morocco came to be as it is now. The country reached its maximum extent during the period of these dynasties: Almoravid , [ 1 ] Almohad , [ 2 ] Marinid [ 3 ] and the Saadi dynasty , [ 4 ] in addition to the greatest extent of the current dynasty, the Alaouite .
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