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Kingdom of Morocco
(Al Mamlaka al-Maghrebiya)
Capital of the country: Rabat
Biggest city: Casablanca
Official language: Arabic
Government: Constitutional Monarchy
King Mohammed VI
Prime Minister Driss Jettou
Area 446,550 km² (56th biggest country in the world)
Population (2005 est.) 32,725,847 (36th most populated country in the world)
GDP (PPP) $4,444 (110th)
Currency: Dirham (MAD;DH) 100 Dirhams about 10 Euros
Calling code +212

A bit of Moroccan History and Facts:

Timeline

* Idrisid dynasty (780-974)
* Maghrawa dynasty (987-1070)
* Almoravid dynasty (1073-1147)
* Almohad dynasty (1147-1269)
* Marinid dynasty (1258-1420)
* Wattasid dynasty (1420-1547)
* Saadi dynasty (1554-1659)
* Alaouite dynasty (1666 - current)

Roman and sub-Roman Morocco
The arrival of Phoenicians heralded many centuries of rule by foreign powers for the north of Morocco, as this strategic region formed part of the Roman Empire, governed as Mauretania Tingitana. In the 5th century the region fell to the Vandals, Visigoths, and then Byzantine Greeks in rapid succession. During this time, however, the high mountains of most of modern Morocco remained unsubdued, and stayed in the hands of their Berber inhabitants.

Early Islamic Morocco
Arabs conquered Morocco in the seventh century, bringing their civilization and Islam, to which most of the Berbers converted, forming states such as the Kingdom of Nekor. The country soon broke away from the control of the distant Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad under Idris ibn Salih who founded the Idrisid Dynasty. Morocco became a centre of learning and a major power.
Morocco would reach its height under a series of Berber dynasties that would replace the Arab Idrisids. First the Almoravids, then the Almohads would see rule most of Northwest Africa, as well as large sections of Spain. The smaller states of the region, such as the Berghouata and Banu Isam, were conquered.The empire collapsed, however, with a long running series of civil wars.

Morocco 1664-1912
Muhammad I , Sultan of Tafilalt [1631-1635]
Muhammad II , Sultan of Tafilalt [1635-1664]

Ar-Rashid [1664-1672] Proclaimed as Sultan of Morocco at Fez, 22nd October 1664. Conquered and secured Marrakesh, 7th September 1668

The Alaouite Dynasty eventually gained control. Morocco was facing aggression from Spain and the Ottoman Empire that was sweeping westward. The Alaouites succeeded in stabilizing their position, and while the kingdom was smaller than previous ones in the region it remained quite wealthy.

In 1684 they anexed Tangier.

Morocco was the first nation to recognize the fledgling United States as an independent nation in 1777. The Moroccan-American Treaty of Friendship stands as the U.S.'s oldest non-broken friendship treaty. Signed by John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, it has been in continuous effect since 1783. The United States legation (consulate) in Tangier is the first property the American government ever owned abroad. The building now houses the Tangier American Legation Museum.

1769 conquest El Jadida to Portugal.
1895 buy Cape Juby to British Empire

European influence
The successful Portuguese efforts to control the Atlantic coast in the 15th century did not affect the Mediterranean heart of Morocco. After the Napoleonic Wars, Egypt and the North African maghreb became increasingly ungovernable from Constantinople, the resort of pirates under local beys, and as Europe industrialized, an increasingly prized potential for colonization. The Maghreb had far greater proven wealth than the unknown rest of Africa and a location of strategic importance affecting the exit from the Mediterranean. For the first time, Morocco became a state of some import to the European Powers. France showed a strong interest in Morocco as early as 1830. Recognition by the United Kingdom in 1904 of France's "sphere of influence" in Morocco provoked a German reaction; the "crisis" of 1905-6 was resolved at the Algeciras Conference (1906), which formalized France's "special position" and entrusted policing of Morocco jointly to France and Spain. A second "Moroccan crisis" provoked by Berlin, increased European Great Power tensions, but the Treaty of Fez (signed on March 30, 1912) made Morocco a protectorate of France. By the same treaty, Spain assumed the role of protecting power over the northern and southern (Ifnin) zones on November 27 that year.
France's exile of the highly respected Sultan Mohammed V in 1953 and his replacement by the unpopular Mohammed Ben Aarafa, whose reign was perceived as illegitimate, sparked active opposition to the French protectorate. France allowed Mohammed V to return in 1955, and the negotiations that led to Moroccan independence began the following year.

Independence
The Kingdom of Morocco recovered its political independence from France on March 2, 1956 and on April 7 of that year France officially relinquished its protectorate in Morocco. Through agreements with Spain in 1956 and 1958, Moroccan control over certain Spanish-ruled areas was restored.

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