Word: ceuta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even more disturbing to Spanish pride were reports of restive stirrings in Melilla and Ceuta, the two cities on Morocco's Mediterranean coast that the Spanish hold and intend to hold, come what may at Ifni and in the south. Both cities are predominantly Spanish, have been ruled as part of Spain for more than three centuries. Last week the nervous Spanish garrisons' commanders had reportedly declared a state of emergency in the two cities, rounded up suspected Moroccan agitators, had hastily thrown up barbed-wire barricades along the borders facing independent Morocco...
...Pardo. Recognizing that Spain's 44-year-old Moroccan protectorate (a kind of sublease from French Morocco) no longer "corresponds to present reality," Franco agreed to yield the 18,000 sq. mi. of Spanish Morocco to the Sultan's sovereignty. (By prior arrangement the cities of Ceuta and Melilla, Spanish for more than three centuries, and Tangier, a free money international zone, were not mentioned.) In return Franco asked for the same rights in the Sultan's new united Morocco that the French enjoy under their new treaty, and certain specific economic concessions. It was agreed that...