Military history of Morocco
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Date: 2022-01-18

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#Military_history_of_Morocco
The military history of Morocco covers a vast time period and complex events.
It interacts with multiple military events in a vast area containing North Africa and the Iberian peninsula.
The 1973 Yom Kippur War was the fourth major conflict between Israel and the neighboring Arab States.
Like many other Arab States, Morocco contributed by deploying 5,500 troops, 30 tanks and 52 combat aircraft to take part in the Yom Kippur War.
Morocco sent one infantry brigade to Egypt and one armored regiment to Syria.
6 Moroccan troops were taken prisoner in the war.
Mauritanian cavalry under Lusius Quietus （a Berber prince） fighting in the Dacian wars.
Berber cavalry fought with shield and throwing javelins.
Just after defeating the Phoenicians and destructing the city of Carthage in nowadays Tunisia during the Punic Wars, the Roman armies took possession of Mauretania and divided it into two provinces.
In the west, Mauritania Tingitana was developed by the creation of roads, agricultural innovations and trade expansions.
In the mountainous areas, the Berber tribes resisted to the Roman invasions.
The Roman influence will be preserved in the south until 285 AD. As of the end of 4th century AD, under the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian, the Romans maintained nothing but one thin presence on the coast, around Tangier.
They remained in the north until 429 AD; date of the passage of the Vandals in this part of Mauretania Tingitana.
In 533 AD, the Byzantine fleets and then the Visigoths occupied Ceuta and Essaouira.
The gallery below shows the maximum extent of each of the prominent dynasties: Almoravid, Almohad, Marinid and the Saadi Sultanate, in addition to the greatest extent of the current dynasty, the Alaouite.
The Battle of Alcácer Quibir （also known as "Battle of Three Kings" was a war in northern Morocco, near the town of Kasar El-Kebir a...