Some argue that the intent of Mauritania's claims was to keep Morocco's border with Mauritania farther away.

Polisario guerrillas in mid-1987 had to traverse Mauritanian territory to enter the Western Sahara, a situation that invited Morocco's accusations of Mauritanian complicity.

For the title track they re-mixed the version they had recorded at their previous session at Morocco's studio, from the demo tape they had recorded there.

When Spain relinquished its protectorate, and recognized Morocco's independence in 1956, it did not give up these minor territories, since Spain had held them well before the establishment of its protectorate.

Slimane continued his father's centralization and expansion of the kingdom, and most notably ended the piracy that had long operated from Morocco's coast.

He is married to a French woman with whom he had a son, Fouad Filali ; the ex-CEO of Morocco's largest private company ONA Group and the former husband of Lalla Meryem, who is the daughter of late Hassan II and elder sister of Mohammad VI.

Immediately after Morocco's independence, the Moroccan Liberation Army's southern branch, the Saharan Liberation Army, had battled Spanish troops in Sidi Ifni, Saguia el-Hamra and Rio de Oro, and managed to free most of the territory.

Even so, the Islamic and Arabic culture only made its influence felt in the towns, with the far majority of Morocco's population clinging to their Berber language and often adhering to Islamic heterodox and heretical doctrines: the Idrisids were principally rulers of the towns and had little power over the far majority of the country's population.

While recognizing Morocco's administrative control of Western Sahara, and generally supportive of the Moroccan government, the United States has not endorsed the country's claim of sovereignty over Western Sahara, but it does support Morocco's autonomy proposal.

Kaiser Wilhelm tried to get Morocco's support if they went to war with France or Britain, and gave a speech expressing support for Moroccan independence, which amounted to a provocative challenge to French influence in Morocco.

It was founded in 1956 ( except the Royal Navy founded in 1960 ) after Morocco's independence from France and Spain.

The Spanish position is that both Ceuta and Melilla are integral parts of the Spanish state, and have been since the 15th century, centuries before Morocco's independence from France in 1956.

Morocco's withdrawal from both the terms of the original Settlement Plan and the Baker Plan negotiations in 2003 left the peace-keeping mission without a political agenda: this further increased the risks of renewed war.

Morocco's state broadcaster RTM operates a radio service from Laayoune ; the broadcaster's TV service is also relayed in the territory.

During Moulay Ismaïl's reign, Morocco's capital city was moved from Fez to Meknes.

The final Act of the conference of Algeciras, signed on April 7, 1906 covered the organization of Morocco's police and customs, regulations concerning repressing the smuggling okkf armaments, and concessions to the European bankers from a newly formed State Bank of Morocco, issuing banknotes backed by gold, with a 40-year term.

A third novel, The Spider's House, ( Random House, New York, November 1955 ) was set in Fez ( immediately prior to Morocco's independence and sovereignty in 1956, away from the French Protectorate ) and charted the relationships among three expatriates and a young Moroccan: John Stenham, Alain Moss, Lee Veyron and Omar.

The Organization of African Unity / African Union and United Nations have proposed negotiated solutions, though the African Union's stance on Western Sahara led to Morocco's exit from the organisation.

* 1956: With Morocco's independence, Alcazarquivir is transferred from Spanish control, and renamed Ksar el-Kebir.

The Souss plains ( Arabic: bilād Atlas ; Berber: Tamazirt n Atlas or Tamazirt n Sus, Land of Souss ), are one of Morocco's most fertile regions, irrigated by the Suss river and separated from the Sahara by the Anti-Atlas Mountains and Great Canyons, is the central area of the Shilha people.

Morocco's two tennis players did not win a match in Athens, with Arazi and El Aynaoui falling to higher ranked opponents in their opening matches, then withdrawing from their doubles match before it was played.

A total of 1, 158 athletes representing 37 National Olympic Committees ( NOCs )— including Morocco's first and only delegation — participated in 35 events from 10 different sports and disciplines.

The airport was built with funding from Japan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Spain, and Germany and designed by Moroccan architects ( modeled after Casablanca airport ) and engineers funded by Morocco's King Hassan II.

* Traditional Moroccan music from Morocco's Ministry of Communication

He was released from Tottenham Hotspur on 26 May 2006 and in August 2007, became Morocco's national team manager assistant to Henri Michel.

Through the Golos spy network, Halperin provided Soviet intelligence with a large quantity of sensitive U. S. diplomatic dispatches, including reports from Ambassador John Gilbert Winant in London on the position of the Polish government-in-exile towards negotiations with Stalin, Turkey's foreign policy toward Romania, the State Department's instructions to the U. S. Ambassador to Spain, the U. S. embassy in Morocco's reports on that country's government, reports on the U. S. government's relationship with Vichy and Free French factions and persons in exile, reports of peace feelers from dissident Germans passed to the Vatican, U. S. attitudes towards Josip Broz Tito's Communist Front activities in Yugoslavia, and discussions between the Greek government and the United States regarding Soviet ambitions in the Balkans.

Aside from the mosque at Place Uta Hammam in the medina, there is also a mosque dedicated to the patron saint of Northern Morocco's Jebalah region, Moulay Abdeslam Ben Mchich Alami.

Moreover, most of Polisario's army is thought to be concentrated in the Tinduf area inside Algeria, safe from the long arm of Morocco's superior artillery and air force.

The Army of Africa ( or Cuerpo de Ejército Marroquí, " Moroccan Army Corps " Al-Jaish Al-Isbaniy fi Afriqa ) was a Spanish field army that garrisoned Spanish Morocco from the early 20th century until Morocco's independence in 1956.

The first order for the second generation Prima II came from Morocco's national railway ONCFM, with an order in November 2007 for twenty electric locomotives.

The Wattasid rulers failed in their promise to protect Morocco from foreign incursions and the Portuguese increased their presence on Morocco's coast.

Morocco's relationships vary greatly between African, Arab, and Western states.

Morocco's identity as an Arab Muslim state has also strengthened ties with the gulf countries as a result of 9 / 11 and the " war on terror ".

The majority of Morocco's population is Arab by identity.

The conflict for this area continues to affect Morocco's relations with Spain, Algeria, and other Maghreb nations.

The Polisario Front argues that Morocco's position is due to economical interests ( fishing, phosphate mining, and the potential for oil ) and political reasons ( stability of the king's position and the governing elite in Morocco and the positioning of the Moroccan Army ).

In February 1992, after a 27-year exile in Kenitra, 15 miles north of Morocco's capital Rabat, the military invited him back to become chairman of the High Council of State ( HCE ) of Algeria, a figurehead body for the military junta, following the annulment of the election results ( see Algerian Civil War ).

Prince Moulay Hassan participated in the February 1956 negotiations for Morocco's independence with his father, who later appointed him Chief of Staff of the newly founded Royal Armed Forces in April 1956.

In October 2007, Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón has declared the competence of the Spanish jurisdiction in the Spanish-Sahrawi disappearances between 1976 and 1987 in Western Sahara, and there have been charges brought against some Moroccan military heads, some of them currently in power, like the head of Morocco's armed forces, general Housni Benlismane, charged for the detention and disappearance campaign of Smara in 1976.

Rejecting the typical French assimilationist approach to culture and education as a liberal fantasy, Morocco's conservative French rulers attempted to use urban planning and colonial education to prevent cultural mixing and to uphold the traditional society upon which the French depended for collaboration.

In Morocco's third game against the Netherlands, Hadji setup the equalizer for Hassan Nader with his first touch after coming on as substitute.

A well irrigated area, this has been one of Morocco's most fertile regions for centuries, known since at least the eleventh century for its cultivation and export of sugar.

The Organization of African Unity seated Western Sahara for the first time in 1982, despite Morocco's vehement objections.

* As Spain announced that it would not fight for the Western Sahara, Morocco's King Hassan II called off the " Green March " and ordered the 200, 000 marchers to return home.

* Société Nationale des Autoroutes du Maroc, the national authority for managing Morocco's expressways