Ifni
Coordinates: 29 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ N , 10 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ W.
Ifni is a former Spanish colony on the West African Atlantic coast near the Canary Islands , south of Agadir in Morocco .
Ifni was 1500 km² and had around 24,000 inhabitants at the end of the 1950s, the majority of whom were Berbers . The capital was Sidi Ifni (today only Ifni ).
Ifni was annexed to Spain for the first time as early as 1476. Forty-eight years later, it was recaptured by the Berbers in 1524. It was not until 1860 that Ifni came under Spanish control again as a result of the Treaty of Tétouan of April 26, 1860 (also called the Treaty of Wad-Ras ). When France and Spain granted Morocco independence in 1956, Spain retained the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla as well as Ifni and the Western Sahara .
From 1946 to 1958 Ifni was part of Spanish West Africa and then a Spanish overseas province. In December 1957, the Moroccans failed in the Ifni War when they tried to occupy the colony. 7,000 to 8,000 Spanish soldiers held an area that was practically worthless economically and was entirely dependent on supplies from the Canary Islands. It was only handed over to Morocco in 1969.
Spanish governors general for Ifni
- 1958–1961 Mariano Gómez Zamalloa y Quirce
- 1961–1964 Joaquín Agulla Jiménez Coronado
- 1964–1969 Adolfo Artelejo Campos
See also
Ifni in art and literature
- In 2004 the album Ifni by the Berlin band 17 Hippies was released . The title piece was written in Ifni and processes the local legend of Saint Sidi Ifni .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Tony Hodges: Western Sahara. The Roots of a Desert War. Lawrence Hill Company, Westport (Connecticut) 1983, p. 78
- ↑ Alberto López Bargados: "Ces orgueilleux seigneurs du desert saharien". Images coloniales et postcoloniales des Sahrawis en Espagne . In: Mariella Villasante Cervello (ed.): Colonisations et héritages actuels au Sahara et au Sahel . Vol. 2. Editions L'Harmattan, Paris 2007. ISBN 978-2-296-04025-0 . Pp. 499-516, here p. 509.