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The Caravan|March 2023
ON 2 MARCH 1956, Muhammad V, the sultan of Morocco-seen here riding to Friday prayers a week later-proclaimed his country's independence from France.
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In doing so, he repudiated the Treaty of Fès, which his uncle Abd al-Hafid had signed, in 1912, after French troops helped him suppress a rebellion. The treaty established a French protectorate over most of Morocco, with Spain controlling the Mediterranean coast. Muhammad's father, Yusuf, was installed as sultan, but real power was vested in a resident general answerable only to Paris.

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