Maharajahnate of Morocco

The Maharajahnate of Morocco is a Spanish Puppet State in North Africa that is West of the Kingdom of Tunsia, Kingdom of Carthage and Italian Sudan South of the Spanish Empire, North of the Emirate of Tarza and Northwest of South Germany.

## History

### Origin

The History of Morocco under the Alaouite Dynasty starts when Sharif Ibn Ali became Prince of Tafilalt in 1631. His son Mulay Al-Rashid was able to unite and pacify the country which established the Sultanate of Morocco.

The Alaouite Sultanate of Morocco was preceded by the Saadi Dynasty who remained in power since the 17th century. After the death of Ahmad Al Mansur, the country was divided amongst his sons.

His son, Muhammad ibn Sharif, managed to take control of Oujda and attacked Tlemcen, but his brother Moulay Rashid ibn Sharif, defeated his rival after the death of his father and killed him in a confrontation that occurred between them. After the killing of his brother Muhammad Boya, he seized Taza and headed to Sijilmasa, then entered it by force after a 9-month siege. He then entered Fes and Marrakesh in the same year.

Morocco was reunited by the Alaouite Dynasty, who have been the ruling house of Morocco ever since. Morocco was facing aggression from Spain and the Ottoman Empire (Mainly Ottoman Algeria) allies pressing westward. The Alaouites succeeded in stabilising their position and the sultanate remained quite wealthy. Against the opposition of local tribes Ismail Ibn Sharif (1672–1727) began to create a unified state. With his Jaysh d'Ahl al-Rif (the Riffian Army) he re-occupied Tangier from the English who had abandoned it in 1684 and drove the Spanish from Larache in 1689. Portuguese abandoned Mazagão, their last territory in Morocco, in 1769. However, the Siege of Melilla against the Spanish ended in defeat in 1775.

Morocco was the first nation to recognise the fledgling United States as an independent nation in 1777. In the beginning of the American Revolution, American merchant ships in the Atlantic Ocean were subject to attack by the Barbary pirates. On 20 December 1777, Moroccan Sultan Mohammed III declared that American merchant ships would be under the protection of the Sultanate and could thus enjoy safe passage. The Moroccan–American Treaty of Friendship, signed in 1786, stands as the U.S.'s oldest non-broken friendship treaty.

Despite the weakness of its authority, the Alaouite dynasty distinguished itself in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by maintaining Morocco’s independence while other states in the region succumbed to French or British domination. However, in the latter part of the nineteenth century, Morocco’s weakness and instability invited European intervention to protect threatened investments and to demand economic concessions. This culminated in the signing of the Treaty of Madrid in 1880. The first years of the twentieth century witnessed a rush of diplomatic maneuvering through which the European powers and France, in particular, furthered their interests in North Africa.

### French Activity

French activity in Morocco began at the end of the nineteenth century. In 1904 the French government was trying to establish a protectorate over Morocco and had managed to sign two bilateral secret agreements with Britain (8 April 1904, see Entente cordiale) and Spain (7 October 1904), which guaranteed the support of the powers in question in this endeavor. France and Spain secretly partitioned the territory of the sultanate, with Spain receiving concessions in the far north and south of the country.

The First Moroccan Crisis grew out of the imperial rivalries of the great powers, in this case, between Germany on one side and France, with British support, on the other. Germany took immediate diplomatic action to block the new accord from going into effect, including the dramatic visit of Wilhelm II to Tangier in Morocco on 31 March 1905. Kaiser Wilhelm tried to get Morocco's support if they went to war with France or Britain, and gave a speech expressing support for Moroccan independence, which amounted to a provocative challenge to French influence in Morocco.

In 1906 the Algeciras Conference was held to settle the dispute, and Germany accepted an agreement in which France agreed to yield control of the Moroccan police, but otherwise retained effective control of Moroccan political and financial affairs. Although the Algeciras Conference temporarily solved the First Moroccan Crisis it only worsened international tensions between the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente

The French military conquest of Morocco began in the aftermath of Émile Mauchamp's assassination in Marrakesh on 19 March 1907. In the French press, his death was characterized as an "unprovoked and indefensible attack from the *barbarous natives* of Morocco." Hubert Lyautey seized his death as a pretext to invade Oujda from the east.

In the summer of 1907, tribes of the Chaouia led a revolta against the application of terms in the 1906 Treaty of Algeciras in Casablanca, killing 9 European laborers working on the rail line between the port and a quarry in Roches Noires. The French responded with a naval bombardment of Casablanca from 5–7 August, and went on to occupy and "pacify" Casablanca and the Chaouia plain, marking the beginning of the French invasion from the west.

Abdelaziz did virtually nothing in response to French aggressions and occupation of Oujda and the Chaouia. As a result, there was growing pressure jihad in defense of Morocco, particularly from Muhammad al-Kattani and the people of Fes. After the southern aristocrats pledged support to the sultan's brother, Abd al-Hafid, the people of Fes also pledged their support, though qualified by an unprecedented Conditional Bay'ah. France supported Abdelaziz and promoted him in their propaganda newspaper *Es-Saada* (السعادة).

In 1911, a rebellion broke out in Morocco against the Sultan, Abdelhafid. By early April 1911, the Sultan was besieged in his palace in Fez and the French prepared to send troops to help put down the rebellion under the pretext of protecting European lives and property. The French dispatched a flying column at the end of April 1911 and Germany gave approval for the occupation of the city. Moroccan forces besieged the French-occupied city. Approximately one month later, French forces brought the siege to an end. On 5 June 1911 the Spanish occupied Larache and Ksar-el-Kebir. On 1 July 1911 the German gunboat Panther arrived at the port of Agadir. There was an immediate reaction from the French, supported by the British.

### French Protectorate

France officially established a protectorate over Morocco with the Treaty of Fez, ending what remained of the country's de facto independence. From a strictly legal point of view, the treaty did not deprive Morocco of its status as a sovereign state. The Sultan reigned but did not rule.[*citation needed*] Sultan Abdelhafid abdicated in favour of his brother Yusef after signing the treaty. On 17 April 1912, Moroccan infantrymen mutinied in the French garrison in Fez, in the 1912 Fes riots The Moroccans were unable to take the city and were defeated by a French relief force. In late May 1912, Moroccan forces again unsuccessfully attacked the enhanced French garrison at Fez.

In establishing their protectorate over much of Morocco, the French had behind them the experience of the conquest of Algeria and of their protectorate over Tunisia; they took the latter as the model for their Moroccan policy. There were, however, important differences. First, the protectorate was established only two years before the outbreak of World War I, which brought with it a new attitude toward colonial rule. Rejecting the typical French assimilationist approach to culture and education as a liberal fantasy, Morocco's conservative French rulers attempted to use urban planning and colonial education to prevent cultural mixing and to uphold the traditional society upon which the French depended for collaboration. Second, Morocco had a thousand-year tradition of independence and had never been subjected to Ottoman rule, though it had been strongly influenced by the civilization of Muslim Iberia.

Morocco was also unique among the North African countries in possessing a coast on the Atlantic, in the rights that various nations derived from the Conference of Algeciras, and in the privileges that their diplomatic missions had acquired in Tangier. Thus the northern tenth of the country, with both Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts, were excluded from the French-controlled area and treated as a Spanish protectorate.

Although being under protectorate, Morocco retained -*de jure*- its personality as a state in international law, according to an International Court of Justice statement, and thus remained a sovereign state, without discontinuity between pre-colonial and modern entities. In fact, the French enjoyed much larger powers.

Under the protectorate, French civil servants allied themselves with the French colonists and with their supporters in France to prevent any moves in the direction of Moroccan autonomy. As pacification proceeded, the French government promoted economic development, particularly the exploitation of Morocco’s mineral wealth, the creation of a modern transportation system, and the development of a modern agriculture sector geared to the French market. Tens of thousands of colonists entered Morocco and bought up large amounts of the rich agricultural land. Interest groups that formed among these elements continually pressured France to increase its control over Morocco.

### World War I

France recruited infantry from Morocco to join its *troupes coloniales*, as it did in its other colonies in Africa and around the world. Throughout World War I, a total of 37,300-45,000 Moroccans fought for France, forming a "Moroccan Brigade." Moroccan colonial troops first served France in the First Battle of the Marne, September 1914, and participated in every major battle in the war, including in Artois, Champagne, and Verdun.

Sadly for them their homeland was invaded by the Spanish Empire who then merged their homeland into West Sahara, North Mali and North Mauritania into a Puppet State ruled by the Sultan of Morocco as a Maharajah. The Soldiers were forced to betray their French superiors and comrades as they submitted themselves into the service of Imperial Germany.

### After World War I

After World War I, Spain made Morocco into a Puppet State ruled by Yusef ben Hassan as Maharajah of Morocco. Yusef was Maharajah of Morocco from 1919-1927 when his reign came to an abrupt end when he died suddenly of uremia in 1927 He was buried in the royal necropolis of the Moulay Abdallah Mosque.. He was succeeded by his son Muhammad who became Maharajah of Morocco and crowned himself Mohammed V of Morocco.

## Government

The Government of Morocco is a Constitutional Monarchy in which the Maharajah is the ceremonial ruler of Morocco and thus commander in chief of the Army. The Maharajah rules with a Prime Minister who is appointed by the Spanish Government to rule as the Governor-General of Morocco. He appoints a Cabinet in his Administration in which the Administration will appoint members of Royal Diet and Chieftains to be members of the Council of Chieftains who elect a Prime Minister. The Governor-General will appoint the Prime Minister as he appoints members of his cabinet with German approval.

## Military

### Army

Morocco has 160 Infantry Divisions (120 Arab Infantry Units, 120 Berber Warrior Units and 120 German Infantry Units) with 120 Calvary Units.

### Navy

Has 12 Submarines, 6 Destroyers and 3 Battlecruisers to defend it's seaside borders.

## Foreign Relations

* Colonial Relations with the Spanish Empire
* Great Relations with the Emirate of Tarza and Kingdom of Tunsia
* Bad Relations with the French Third Republic.