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The Tangier International Zone (Arabic: منطقة طنجة الدولية Minṭaqat Ṭanja ad-Dawliyya; French: Zone internationale de Tanger; Spanish: Zona Internacional de Tánger) was a 382 km 2 (147 sq mi) international zone centered on the city of Tangier, Morocco, which existed from 1925 until its reintegration into independent Morocco in 1956, with interruption during the Spanish ...
The International Zone of Tangier had a 373 km 2 (144 sq mi) area and, by the mid-1930s, a population of about 50,000 inhabitants: 30,000 Muslims; 12,000 Jews; and 8,000-odd Europeans, with a decreasing proportion of working-class Spaniards. [17] At its peak in the 1940s, there were 22,000 Jews in Tangier. [69]
Following the August 1945 Paris Conference on Tangier between the United Kingdom, France, the United States and the Soviet Union, an isolated Spain accepted the conditions lined up in the former on 19 September 1945 and retired from Tangier on 11 October 1945. [9] Tangier then returned to the pre-war status of an international zone. [10]
Tangier (yellow) and the International Zone, 1953.Merchant flag of the Tangier International Zone. This is a list of Administrators (with executive authority over the territory and its European populations) and Mendoubs (representatives of the Sultan of Morocco, with authority over the Muslim and Jewish communities) of the Tangier International Zone.
1925 – Tangier International Zone in effect, per Tangier Protocol. 1937 – Dean's Bar in business. [1] 1939 – Stade de Marchan (stadium) built. [citation needed] 1940 – 14 June: City occupied by Spanish forces. [5] 1945 – 11 October: City returned to international status. [11] 1947 Sultan Mohammed V of Morocco gives speech at the Grand ...
By the Tangier Protocol signed in December 1923, Tangier received special status and became an international zone, [142] although, during World War II, it was occupied from 1940 to 1945 by Francoist Spain.
Killed in action in the Battle of Tangier. 4 May 1664 to 1664: Sir Tobias Bridge, Acting Governor 1664 to April 1665: John Fitzgerald, Governor April 1665 to 1666: John, Baron Belasyse, Governor 1666 to 1669: Sir Henry Norwood, Governor 1669 to 1670: John Middleton, Earl of Middleton, Governor 1st Term. 1670 to 1672: Sir Hugh Chomondeley ...
However, the United Kingdom was not content to allow the strategically important town of Tangier to be entirely in French or Spanish hands. As a result, an international convention of 1923 established the Tangier International Zone. This was a novel hybrid in terms of sovereignty and administration.