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Since France had given up its ambitions in Ottoman Libya in a convention with Italy in 1903, it felt entitled to a greater share of Morocco. On 3 October 1904, France and Spain concluded a treaty that defined their precise zones. [9] Spain received a zone of influence consisting of a northern strip of territory and a southern strip.
When Morocco gained independence from France in 1956, Spanish Morocco was handed to the new kingdom. [1] However, Spain maintained control of the plazas de soberanía, asserting that they were Spanish territory long before the creation of the protectorate in 1912 and should therefore remain part of Spain, a position contested by Morocco. [1] [7 ...
Map of Spanish Morocco in 1925. When Spain relinquished its protectorate and recognized Morocco's independence in 1956, it did not give up these minor territories, as Spain had held them well before the establishment of its protectorate.
Spain, in line with the majority of nations in the rest of the world, has never recognized Morocco's claim over Ceuta. The official position of the Spanish government is that Ceuta is an integral part of Spain, and has been since the 16th century, centuries prior to Morocco's independence from Spain and France in 1956. [92]
Map of peninsular Spain. Peninsular Spain refers to the part of the territory of Spain located within the Iberian Peninsula, [1] thus excluding other parts of Spain: the Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands, Ceuta, Melilla, and several islets and crags off the coast of Morocco known collectively as plazas de soberanía (places of sovereignty).
Tangier (top left) and the Spanish protectorate in Morocco. Negotiations restarted after the end of the war, in Cannes in 1922, [15]: 12 followed by a preparatory conference in London in June 1923, and a follow-up conference in Paris that started in October and concluded with a convention signed by France, Spain and the UK on 18 December 1923, [15]: 12 ignoring Italy's stated wish to ...
Relative to France, which was assigned control over most of the Moroccan State, Spain ended up with a small territory in northern Morocco, largely mountainous and not easily accessible, [36] and to which the Cape Juby strip, a small strip of land in Southern Morocco, bordering with the Spanish Sahara added up. [37]
Spain is one of only three countries, along with France and Morocco, to have coastlines on both the Atlantic and Mediterranean. The Portugal–Spain border, stretching 1,214 km (754 mi), is the longest continuous border within the European Union. As a matter of fact, the total length of the border shared by Spain reaches 1,928 kilometres (1,198 ...