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  • 6 - The Maghrib

  • Edited by A. D. Roberts
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Africa
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    24 July 1986, pp 267-328

  • Summary

    In 1905 the Maghrib was sharply divided. Although Algeria had been French since its conquest in the 1830s and 1840s, Morocco was still an independent state, and Libya still a province of the Ottoman Empire. By 1914 Morocco had become a second French protectorate, at the price of territorial concessions to Spain in the north and south. By the First World War, land laws for public and private property had enabled the French to appropriate about half of the total area of Algeria north of the Sahara. The bulk of this land belonged to the state or the communes, and consisted of forest and waste. By 1905 the vine was well established, and wheat-growing by the dry-farming methods of North America was beginning. In the decade before the First World War, the French presence led to conflict as much between Tunisians as between Tunisians and French.