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The First Moroccan Crisis or the Tangier Crisis was an international crisis between March 31, 1905, and April 7, 1906, over the status of Morocco. [1] Germany wanted to challenge France 's growing control over Morocco, aggravating France and Great Britain.
The Algeciras Conference [a] of 1906 took place in Algeciras, Spain, and lasted from 16 January to 7 April.The purpose of the conference was to find a solution to the First Moroccan Crisis of 1905 between France and Germany, which arose as Germany responded to France's effort to establish a protectorate over the independent state of Morocco. [1]
The First Moroccan Crisis of 1905-1906 was resolved at the Algeciras Conference in 1906. The Treaty of Algeciras formalized France's preeminence among European powers in Morocco, and gave France a number of colonial privileges: control over duties at Moroccan ports, a contract to develop the ports of Casablanca and Asfi , and joint control with ...
This is a list of wars involving the Kingdom of Morocco and the former entities that ruled the modern polity. Moroccan victory Moroccan defeat Another result (e.g. a treaty or peace without a clear result, status quo ante bellum, result of civil or internal conflict, result unknown or indecisive)
With this intention Kaiser Wilhelm II made a visit to Tangier on 31 March 1905, and stated while there that he regarded Sultan Moulay Abd al-Aziz as an independent ruler, warned against hasty reforms (a reference to France's mandate in the 1904 agreement with Britain to ‘reform’ the Moroccan structure), and warned that Germany's interests ...
1905 La Dépêche marocaine newspaper begins publication. Anglican Church of St. Andrew consecrated. 1905/06 - First Moroccan Crisis leading to the Algeciras Conference; 1910 - Population: 40,000 (approximate figure). [4] 1911 - Agadir Crisis & Treaty of Fes (1912) 1913 – Gran Teatro Cervantes opens. [9] 1917 – Sidi Bou Abib Mosque built. [6]
The agreements of the Algeciras Conference did not prevent the "Second Moroccan Crisis" or Agadir Crisis, which began with the French occupation of Fez on 21 May 1911, the Spanish military occupation of Larache, Asilah and Ksar el-Kebir a few weeks later, and was unleashed with the arrival of the German gunboat SMS Panther at the port of Agadir ...
France's pre-eminence in Morocco had been upheld by the 1906 Algeciras Conference, following the First Moroccan Crisis of 1905–06. France and Germany agreed on 9 February 1909 that while France would have exclusive political control, the two nations would uphold each other's economic interests in Morocco. [4]