Cape Juby
Cape Juby ( Spanish Cabo Juby ) is a cape on the southern coast of Morocco , not far from the border with the desert-like areas of the Western Sahara , east of the Canary Islands . From 1916 to 1958 the cape and its approximately 30,000 km² hinterland formed the southern part of the Spanish-Morocco Protectorate . After the main town Tarfaya , it was also known as the "Tarfaya Strip".
population
The entire Tarfaya strip had about 10,000 inhabitants around 1950, of which about half were nomadic or semi-nomadic.
history
On March 1, 1799, the Moroccan Sultan Slimane ben Mohammed signed an agreement with the Spanish King Charles IV , from which it emerged that the area around Cape Juby was not part of his dominion.
In 1879 the British North West Africa Company set up a trading post they named Port Victoria . A little later, however, in 1895, it was sold to the Sultan of Morocco.
In 1912, Spain negotiated with France , which represented Morocco's affairs, over territorial concessions in southern Morocco. On July 29, 1916, the cape was finally occupied by Francisco Bens , a military and administrative officer in the Spanish service, and became part of the Spanish Sahara .
After gaining independence (1956) Morocco demanded the return of the areas controlled by Spain. After some resistance and fighting in 1957, Cape Juby was ceded to Morocco in 1958.
Others
- In 1926 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry became head of the Cape Juby desert airfield , a base of the Aéropostale , which at the time set up an air mail route between Toulouse , Dakar and South America .
- After the Cape, a US Navy cargo ship was named SS Cape Juby .
Postage stamps
Spain issued a large number of postage stamps for Cape Juby. The first of 1916 were postage postage with the words CABO JUBI on stamps from Río de Oro . Later the overprints were "Cabo Juby" in various forms on Spanish stamps from 1919 to 1929, then stamps from Spanish Morocco . Issues with overprints on these were issued in 1934, 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1944, 1946 and 1948.
See also
literature
- Roland Grupe: Western Sahara - The Forgotten Mission: Experience report of a German UN police officer . 264 pp., Books on Demand, 2011, ISBN 978-3-84235218-6
Coordinates: 27 ° 56 '52.2 " N , 12 ° 55' 24.4" W.