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 5/ Leaving linguistics behind, let's move on to geographic curiosities with the interesting case of Tangier. Located in northwestern Morocco ๐ฒ๐ฆ from 1925 to 1956 (except for a Spanish occupation from 1940-45) the city was an "international zone", co-governed/administered by France ๐ซ๐ท, Spain ๐ช๐ธ, Britain ๐ฌ๐ง, the US ๐บ๐ธfrom 1925 to 1956 and separate from the rest of Morocco. 5 comments
9/ As part of the conflict Morocco ๐ฒ๐ฆ has built a series of massive sand walls ("berms") to prevent movement of fighters of the Polisario Front - the nationalist movement of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic ๐ช๐ญ 10/ The conflict has largely simmered on without much international attention, though in 2020 it came back into focus when the United States ๐บ๐ธ recognised ๐ฒ๐ฆ Morocco's annexation of what it refers to as its "Southern Provinces" as part of diplomatic normalisation agreement talks between Morocco and Israel ๐ฎ๐ฑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Morocco_normalization_agreement |
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6/ Until 1956 northern Morocco ๐ฒ๐ฆ was a protectorate of Spain ๐ช๐ธ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_protectorate_in_Morocco
Even today there are two Spanish "autonomous cities" on the Mediterranean coast: Ceuta and and Melilla
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