Ifni
Americannoun
noun
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No sooner had the King departed for his visit to the U.S. than the irregulars assembled a motley force of some 1,200 townsmen and tribesmen and launched an attack on Ifni.
From Time Magazine Archive
King Mohammed V tacitly agreed to leave Ifni to the Spaniards at the time of the 1956 declaration of independence.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Morocco, growing confident in its new nationhood, last August asked Franco to give Ifni back.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week the Madrid government finally permitted its tightly controlled press to report that the Spanish garrison at Ifni had taken a beating.
From Time Magazine Archive
There arrived in this country at the beginning of the year another ship which stopped at a place called Ifni, in the tribe of Ait-Bamouran, and stayed there three days.
From Moorish Literature by Basset, René
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