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What was Moroccan independence in 1956?
Forty-four years of protectorate ended when an exiled sultan came home — the monarchy, the nationalists and the mountain fighters won it together.
Last updated: October 2026
On 2 March 1956, Morocco ended forty-four years of French and Spanish protectorate rule and regained its independence under Sultan Mohammed V. The independence struggle — a rare alliance of the monarchy, the Istiqlal nationalist party and the rural Army of Liberation — had been ignited three years earlier when France exiled the Sultan to Madagascar.
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