Spanish West Africa
| Spanish West Africa | ||||||||||||||||||
| África Occidental Española | ||||||||||||||||||
| Spanish colony | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Northwestern African territories under Spanish control in 1912.
Some of these would later be grouped to form Spanish West Africa. |
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| Capital | Villa Cisneros | |||||||||||||||||
| Languages |
Spanish Arabic |
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| Religion |
Roman Catholicism Islam |
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| Political structure | Colony | |||||||||||||||||
| Royal Commissioner | ||||||||||||||||||
| • | 1885–1886 | Emilio Bonelli Hernando | ||||||||||||||||
| Governor | ||||||||||||||||||
| • | 1946–1949 (first) | José Bermejo López | ||||||||||||||||
| • | 1958 (last) | José Héctor Vázquez | ||||||||||||||||
| High Commissioner | ||||||||||||||||||
| • | 1939–1940 (first) | Juan Luis Beigbeder y Atienza | ||||||||||||||||
| • | 1951–1956 (last) | Rafael García Valiño | ||||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||||
| • | Established | December 26, 1946 | ||||||||||||||||
| • | Disestablished | April 10, 1958 | ||||||||||||||||
| Currency | Spanish peseta | |||||||||||||||||
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Spanish West Africa (Spanish: África Occidental Española) is a former possession in the western Sahara Desert that Spain ruled after giving much of its former northwestern African possessions to Morocco. It was created in December 1946, and combined Ifni, Cape Juby and Spanish Sahara.
The first Spaniard arrived in western Africa at the end of the Middle Ages. The very first may have been the Balearic traveler Jaume Ferrer who disappeared in 1375 on the journey off the African coast, or one of the Castilians who landed at Boujdour in 1405 and attacked a caravan there.
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