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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 Tangier International Zone was created under the joint administration of France, Spain and the United Kingdom by an international convention signed in Paris on 18 December 1923. [65] Ratifications were exchanged in Paris on 14 May 1924, and the convention was registered in League of Nations Treaty Series on 13 September 1924. [ 66 ]
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.
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]
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Tangier, Morocco ... Tangier International Zone disestablished. [12] 1960 – Population: 141,714. [15]
The Mendoubia, former office of the Mendoub on Tangier's Grand Socco square The former Mendoub's Residence in Tangier's Marshan neighborhood. The Mendoub or Mandub (Arabic: مندوب, "delegate" or "representative") was a key official in the governance of the Tangier International Zone between 1925 and 1956, with a wartime interruption from 1940 to 1945.
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 ...
On 10 April 1947, in spite of a massacre instigated by French forces in Casablanca, [156] Sultan Muhammad V delivered a momentous speech in Tangier appealing for independence and territorial unity of Morocco, having travelled from French Morocco and through Spanish Morocco to reach the Tangier International Zone.