The weakened empire fell to invaders from Morocco at the Battle of Tondibi just 3 years later.

Two years later, faced with a united Moroccan demand for the sultan's return, rising violence in Morocco, and the deteriorating situation in Algeria, the French government brought Mohammed V back to Morocco.

The border remained a contentious issue, but was later demarcated, and Morocco no longer makes any formal claim on Algerian territory.

Morocco has been aligned with the United States during the Cold War, whereas Algeria kept a distance from the West, favouring the Soviet Union and later a non-aligned position.

Moroccan troops took control of the region vacated by Mauritania and later proclaimed the territory reintegrated into Morocco.

Just a year later, UNHCR was tasked with dealing with Chinese refugees in Hong Kong, while also responding Algerian refugees who had fled to Morocco and Tunisia in the wake of Algeria's war for independence.

This was the case with the Almoravids of Morocco and Al-Andalus, and was also the case with the jihad of Nasir al-Din in the 17th century and the later Qadiriyyah movement of the Kunta in the 18th century.

Of the eleven pavilions, Norway and Morocco were not present at the park's opening, and were added later.

The agriculture of the countryside had diversified to the point where grain was imported from Morocco ( a symptom of an economy dependent upon Portugal's ), while specialised crops occupied former grain-growing areas: vineyards, olives, or the sugar factories of the Algarve, later to be reproduced in Brazil ( Braudel 1985 ).

Earlier, the Classical Romans interacted with ( and later conquered ) parts of Mauretania, a state that covered northern portions of modern Morocco and much of north western and central Algeria during the classical period.

In Morocco, Berber can be used as a regional medium of elementary education, with widespread use of French and Arabic come later grades.

; 1013 – 1073: Rabbi Yitchaki Alfassi ( from Morocco, later Spain ) writes the Rif, an important work of Jewish law.

The Chabad movement in France later attracted many Jewish immigrants from Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia.

Mauritania withdrew all its forces and would later proceed to formally recognize the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, causing a massive rupture in relations with Morocco.

The Torch landings in Morocco later that month marked the effective end of the Axis threat in North Africa.

On September 23, 2001 BBC News reported that al-Shehri was " alive and well " in Casablanca, Morocco and was talking to multiple media organizations ; however, due to confusion over the man's identity, and editorial concerns over conspiracy theories, BBC News later modified the September 23 report by inserting " A man called ... " BBC News considers the September 23 report superseded by an October 5, 2001 report that lists Waleed as one of the alleged hijackers believed by the FBI to be responsible for the September 11 attacks.

The term refers to the culture of the Roman Republic, later the Roman Empire, which, at its peak, covered an area from Lowland Scotland and Morocco to the Euphrates.

Morocco was later to become the home of Bowles ( and the inspiration for many of his short stories ).

UNITA received support from several governments in Africa and around the world, including Bulgaria, Egypt, France, Israel, Morocco, the People's Republic of China, North Korea ( although North Korea later recognized the MPLA government ), Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the United States, Zaire, and Zambia.

It was gradually brought to Morocco by Sub-Saharan Africans and later became part of the Moroccan tradition.

Both finalists were eliminated in quarter finals two years later in Tunisia, where the hosts won their first title, beating Morocco 2 – 1 in the final.

Some days later, the ambassadors of Pakistan, Indonesia, Egypt and Morocco, and chargé d ' affair of Tunisia made an unusual strong attack on Hagen in a letter in the newspaper Aftenposten.

Examples include Abd al-Qadir in Algeria, the Mahdi in Sudan, Shamil in the Caucasus, the Senussi in Libya and in Chad, Mullah-i Lang in Afghanistan, the Akhund of Swat in India, and later, Abd al-Karim in Morocco.

Morocco then annexed the entire territory and, in 1985, built a 2, 500-kilometer sand berm around three-quarters of it.

East of Morocco, huge territories in North Africa were annexed.

The next Saharawi exodus, although on a smaller scale, took place in 1979 when Mauritania withdrew from the conflict and Morocco annexed the rest of Western Sahara.

* August 11 – The former Mauritanian province of Tiris al-Gharbiyya in Western Sahara is annexed by Morocco.

King Hassan II of Morocco immediately claimed the area of Western Sahara evacuated by Mauritania ( Tiris al-Gharbiya, roughly corresponding to the southern half of Río de Oro ), which was unilaterally annexed by Morocco in August 1979.

Thus, the court recommended the UN to continue to pursue self-determination for the Sahrawis, enabling them to choose for themselves whether they wanted Spanish Sahara to turn into an independent state, or to be annexed to Morocco or Mauritania.

Morocco and Mauritania then formally annexed the parts they had been allotted in the Accords.

Morocco immediately annexed that territory in addition.

Henry was 21 when he, his father and brothers captured the Moorish port of Ceuta in northern Morocco, that had long been a base for Barbary pirates who raided the Portuguese coast, depopulating villages by capturing their inhabitants to be sold in the African slave market.

In the autumn of 1351, Ibn Battuta left Fes and made his way to the town of Sijilmasa on the northern edge of the Sahara in present-day Morocco.

Morocco, occupying the northern half of Western Sahara and also involved in combat against Polisario, reacted with outrage, and launched a failed 1981 coup against the CMSN.

During the reign of Juba II Emperor Augustus ( who created in the area of what is now northern Morocco 12 colonies with retired Roman legionaries ) had already founded three colonias, with Roman citizens, in Mauretania close to the Atlantic coast: Iulia Constantia Zilil, Iulia Valentia Banasa and Iulia Campestris Babba.

After the victory over the zāwiya of Dila, who controlled northern Morocco, he was able to unite and pacify the country.

At the same time the Rif area of northern Morocco submitted to Spain.

Morocco assumed control over the northern two-thirds of the territory and conceded the remaining portion in the south to Mauritania.

French is still popularly spoken and remains the second language in Morocco whilst Spanish is also widespread, particularly in the northern regions.

On the northern side of the Strait are Spain and Gibraltar ( a British overseas territory in the Iberian Peninsula ), while on the southern side are Morocco and Ceuta ( a Spanish exclave in North Africa ).

In the 13th and 14th century, these tribes migrated westwards along the northern border of the Sahara to settle in the Fezzan ( Libya ), Ifriqiya ( Tunisia ), Tlemcen ( Algeria ), Jebel Saghro ( Morocco ), and Saguia el-Hamra, ( Western Sahara ).

The modern ethnic group is thus an Arabized Berber people inhabiting the westernmost Sahara desert, in the area of modern Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria and most notably the Western Sahara, with some tribes traditionally migrating into northern Mali and Niger.

In these accords, Morocco was set to annex back 2 / 3 of the northern part of Western Sahara, whereas the lower third would be given to Mauritania.

Following to the Madrid Accords, the territory was partitioned between Morocco and Mauritania in November 1975, with Morocco acquiring the northern two-thirds.

It derives from the small Numidian Kingdom of Maure of the 3rd century BCE in what is now northern central and western part of Algeria and a part of northern Morocco.

The range is from Morocco through to Egypt, as far south as northern Niger and as far east as the Sinai Peninsula and Kuwait.

In antiquity, Mauretania was originally an independent kingdom on the Mediterranean coast of north Africa ( named after the Mauri tribe, after whom the Moors were named ), corresponding to northern Morocco.

* Mauretania Tingitana, named after its capital Tingis ( now Tangier ); it corresponded to northern Morocco including the Spanish enclaves.

* Between northern Morocco and the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla lies a demilitarized zone.

* T. m. mauretanicus, another small dark species with a glossy black male plumage, breeds in central and northern Morocco, coastal Algeria and northern Tunisia.

Small numbers also winter in northwestern Africa in Morocco, northern Algeria and Tunisia.