Moroccan History and Politics
Independence and the Kingdom
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- Which sultan, exiled in 1953, took the title of king in 1957?
- Which king reigned from 1961 until 1999?
- What was the Green March of 6 November 1975?
- What title does the king of Morocco hold as the religious leader of the country?
- Which two chambers make up the Moroccan parliament?
- In which year did a new constitution make Tamazight an official language alongside Arabic?
- In which year was Morocco's first constitution approved?
- Which 2004 reform raised the minimum marriage age to 18 and gave women new rights in divorce?
- Which body created in 2004 heard victims of abuses committed under the Years of Lead?
- Which name is given to the period of political repression from the 1960s to the 1980s?
- Which national holiday on 30 July marks the accession of the monarch?
- Which holiday on 20 August commemorates the exile of Mohammed V in 1953 and the revolt it triggered?
- What does the flag of Morocco show?
- Which city is Morocco's capital?
- Which list names Morocco's four imperial cities?
- With which country does the United States hold its oldest unbroken treaty, signed in 1786 and ratified in 1787?
- Which groups, expelled from Spain after 1492, shaped city life in Fez and Tetouan?
- What name is given to the Jewish quarters of Moroccan cities, the first being created in Fez in 1438?
- Which twin ports on the Bou Regreg formed a corsair republic in the 1600s?
- Which Moroccan port came to England in 1661 as part of a royal dowry and was abandoned in 1684?
- What were the Moroccan soldiers called who fought with the French army in Italy in 1943 and 1944?
- Which first Resident-General of the French protectorate chose Rabat as the administrative capital?
- Which northern city was the capital of the Spanish protectorate from 1913?
- Which Atlantic enclave, granted to Spain in 1860 and handed back in 1969, is a town in the south?
- In which month of 1956 did Spain end its protectorate over northern Morocco?
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