Ifni
Former Spanish colonial province in Morocco / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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 km2 (580 sq mi), and a population of 51,517 in 1964. The main industry was fishing. The present-day Moroccan province in the same area is called Sidi Ifni, with its capital in the city of the same name, but encompassing a much larger territory.
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1934[lower-alpha 1]–1969 | |||||||||
Status | Colony of Spain (1934–1946) Constituent of Spanish West Africa (1946–1958) Province of Spain (1958–1969) | ||||||||
Capital | Sidi Ifni | ||||||||
Common languages | Spanish Arabic | ||||||||
Religion | Catholicism Islam | ||||||||
Government | Colonial administration | ||||||||
Head of State | |||||||||
• 1934–1936 | Niceto Alcalá-Zamora | ||||||||
• 1936–1969 | Francisco Franco | ||||||||
Government Delegate | |||||||||
• 1934–1935 (first) | Rodríguez de la Herranza | ||||||||
• 1957–1958 (last) | Francisco Mena Díaz | ||||||||
Governor-General | |||||||||
• 1958–1959 (first) | Mariano Gómez-Zamalloa y Quirce | ||||||||
• 1967–1969 (last) | José Rodríguez | ||||||||
Establishment | |||||||||
Historical era | Interwar period, World War II, Cold War, Decolonisation of Africa | ||||||||
26 April 1860 | |||||||||
• Established | 12 January 1934 | ||||||||
• Ifni War | 23 October 1957 | ||||||||
1 April 1958 | |||||||||
• Retroceded to Morocco | 30 June 1969 | ||||||||
Currency | Spanish peseta | ||||||||
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