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Spanish West Africa (Spanish: África Occidental Española, AOE) was a grouping of Spanish colonies along the Atlantic coast of northwest Africa. It was formed in 1946 by joining the southern zone (the Cape Juby Strip) of the Spanish protectorate in Morocco with the colonies of Ifni, Saguia el-Hamra and Río de Oro into a single administrative unit.
Ifni was a Spanish province on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, south of Agadir and across from the Canary Islands. It had a total area of 1,502 km 2 (580 sq mi), and a population of 51,517 in 1964. The main industry was fishing.
The Spanish acquired the west side, washing South America and the West Indies, whilst the Portuguese obtained the east side, washing the west coast of Africa – and also the Indian Ocean beyond. The Spanish relied on enslaved African labourers to support their American colonial project, but now lacked any trading or territorial foothold in ...
Though militarily victorious in the 1957–58 Moroccan invasion of Spanish West Africa, Spain gradually relinquished its remaining African colonies. Spanish Guinea was granted independence as Equatorial Guinea in 1968, while the Moroccan enclave of Ifni had been ceded to Morocco in 1969.
The history of West Africa has been divided into its prehistory, ... In 1510, the Spanish Crown initiated Spain's involvement in the Atlantic slave trade, ...
Spanish protectorate of Morocco (1912–1956) Spanish Oran (1509–1708 - 1732–1792), territory of the Spanish Empire; Spanish West Africa (1946–1958) Spanish Sahara (1884–1976), which included the provinces of Río de Oro and Saguia el-Hamra, now Moroccan-administered Western Sahara; Cape Juby, on the coast of southern Morocco, part of ...
It was administered by Spain as a single entity with Spanish Sahara and the Ifni enclave, as Spanish West Africa. The Spanish area comprised 12,700 sq mi (33,000 km 2) and had a population of 9,836. [citation needed] Its main town was founded by the Spanish as Villa Bens (now called Tarfaya). Villa Bens was used as a staging post for airmail ...
Spanish territorial boundary changes in Northwest Africa per the treaties of 1885, 1900, 1902, 1904, and 1912. What exactly "special consideration" meant was dealt with in the secret third and fourth articles, specifying that Spain would be required to recognize Articles 4 and 7 of the treaty but could decline the "special consideration" if it ...