 Spanish period Spanish and French protectorates in Morocco and Spanish Sahara, 1935. For many years Spanish fishermen on the Canary Islands come near the coast of Western Sahara, where fish abound. At the end of the 19th century , many Africanists companies formed to explore and exploit this territory still largely unknown. On the African continent exclusively colonized by the Germans present in Togo and Cameroon and in East Africa and the Spaniards in the region, the Spaniards want to be the first to claim this territory despite the presence of Arab populations there. Berbers organized into tribes. Establishment of the protectorate In 1881, the Sociedad Pesquerías Canario-Africanas built a landing stage on Durnford Point , on the site of Villa Cisneros. OnJanuary 1884, Emilio Bonelli y Hernando of the Sociedad Española de Africanistas y Colonistas signs a treaty with Sahrawi chiefs who cede the Río de Oro peninsula to Spain but the latter does not take possession of it. the28 november, Emilio Bonelli signs another treaty with three representatives of Oulad bou Sbaa (Sba) which authorizes the establishment of counters: Villa Cisneros (in Río de Oro, now Dakhla ), Puerto Badía (in Angra da Cintra), in Ausserd (in La Guera, current Lagouira ). On December 26, 1884 , Spain proclaimed a protectorate ref. necessary named Río de Oro on the coast from Cape Juby to Guergarate ( Bahia del Oeste ), ostensibly at the request of the local population ref. necessary . The protectorate also made it possible to close the door to Donald MacKenzie who was seeking to establish new trading posts on this coast. The Berlin conference ratifies the Spanish claim the following month. Villa Cisneros is the administrative capital and Bonelli has a fort built there with workers from the Canaries. theApril 6, 1873 , the Spanish protectorate is extended to Cape Juby delimited by a natural border the Draa river which takes its borders from the Sahara Español from Tan-Tan to current Zag Seguia el-Hamra to the north that the Draa river is compared to the towns of Zag in Tan-Tan as well as 240 kilometers inland to Bir Lehlou to Ausserd at the seaport of Guergueret where the Emirate of Adrar begins near the towns of Zouérate in Fdérick ( Mauritania). It is then placed under the authority of the Governor-General of the Canaries comprising the Canary Islands and Sahara Español (Western Sahara) under the name of "Provincia Ultra Marina de Sahara Español" who appoints a deputy governor. InMarch 1887, Villa Cisneros is attacked and looted by the Oulad Delim then again inMarch 1892 and in November 1894. theMarch 2, 1895, the Spaniards sign an agreement with Sheikh Ould Hakim of Oulad Hakmassaouï . However, inMarch 1898, a gang of Oulad Delim attacks Villa Cisneros again, kills several employees of the Hispano-African Commercial Company ( Compañia Mercantil Hispano-Africana ) which produced globally a production of canned sardines for world trade and plundered them. stocks while the Spaniards flee by boat to Foum el Oued, a coastal town very close to the current capital of Western Sahara (Laayoune).
Early Spanish period (1870-1958) Spanish and French protectorates in Morocco and Spanish Sahara, 1935. For many years Spanish fishermen on the Canary Islands come near the coast of Western Sahara, where fish abound. At the end of the 19th century , many Africanist companies formed to explore and exploit this territory still largely unknown. On the African continent exclusively colonized by the Germans present in Togo and Cameroon and in East Africa and the Spaniards in the region, the Spaniards want to be the first to claim this territory despite the presence of Arab populations there. Berbers organized into tribes. Establishment of the protectorate In 1881, the Sociedad Pesquerías Canario-Africanas built a landing stage on Durnford Point , on the site of Villa Cisneros. On January 1884, Emilio Bonelli y Hernando of the Sociedad Española de Africanistas y Colonistas signs a treaty with Sahrawi chiefs who cede the Río de Oro peninsula to Spain but the latter does not take possession of it. the 28 november, Emilio Bonelli signs another treaty with three representatives of Oulad bou Sbaa (Sba) which authorizes the establishment of counters: Villa Cisneros (in Río de Oro, now Dakhla ), Puerto Badía (in Angra da Cintra), in Ausserd (in La Guera, current Lagouira ). On December 26, 1884 , Spain proclaimed a protectorate named Río de Oro on the coast from Cape Juby to Guergarate ( Bahia del Oeste ), ostensibly at the request of the local population . The protectorate also made it possible to close the door to Donald MacKenzie who was seeking to establish new trading posts on this coast. The Berlin conference ratifies the Spanish claim the following month. Villa Cisneros is the administrative capital and Bonelli has a fort built there with workers from the Canaries. On April 6, 1885 , the Spanish protectorate is extended to Cape Juby delimited by a natural border the Draa river which takes its borders from Tan-Tan to current Seguia el-Hamra to the north that the Draa river is compared to the towns of Zag in Tan-Tan as well as 240 kilometers inland to Bir Lehlou to Ausserd at the seaport of Guergueret where the Emirate of Adrar begins near the towns of Zouérate in Fdérick ( Mauritania). It is then placed under the authority of the Governor-General of the Canaries comprising the Canary Islands and Sahara Español (Western Sahara) under the name of "Provincia Ultra Marina de Sahara Español" who appoints a deputy governor. InMarch 1887, Villa Cisneros is attacked and looted by the Oulad Delim then again inMarch 1892 and in November 1894. theMarch 2, 1895, the Spaniards sign an agreement with Sheikh Ould Hakim of Oulad Hakmassaouï . However, inMarch 1898, a gang of Oulad Delim attacks Villa Cisneros again, kills several employees of the Hispano-African Commercial Company ( Compañia Mercantil Hispano-Africana ) which produced globally a production of canned sardines for world trade and plundered them. stocks while the Spaniards flee by boat to Foum el Oued, a coastal town very close to the current capital of Western Sahara (Laayoune).
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