Died 1963-02-06.
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Abd el-Krim
Mohammed ben Abdelkrim El Khattabi, better known as Abd el-Krim, was a Moroccan revolutionary, religious, political and military leader and the president of the Republic of the Rif. He and his brother M'Hammad led a large-scale revolt by a coalition of Riffian tribes against the Spanish and French Protectorates of the Rif and the rest of Morocco. His guerrilla tactics, which included the first-eve…
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politics · Moroccan political and military leader (1882/1883–1963) · qadi · writer · translator · politician · journalist · resistance fighter · president · military personnel · also Abd el-Krim, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Khaṭṭābī, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Karim al-Khattabi, el-Krim
Born 12 January 1882 · Died 6 February 1963 · Q202650
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1963· 2 entries
Just after he had seen his hopes of a Maghreb independent of colonial powers completed by the independence of Algeria
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded Order of the Republic (1960).
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1956· 1 entry
Mohammed V of Morocco invited him back to Morocco
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1947· 1 entry
Abd el-Krim was given permission to live in the south of France after he had been released on health grounds; however, during his transfer he was freed from his French keepers and escorted to Cairo by Moroccan nationalis
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1925· 1 entry
After conferencing with the Spanish in Madrid, sent a massive French force under Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain to Morocco, where it joined with a Spanish army, with a combined total of more than 250,000 soldiers, support
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1921· 2 entries
As a byproduct of their efforts to destroy the power of a local brigand, Ahmed er Raisuni, Spanish troops approached the unoccupied areas of the Rif
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Career landmark: President of the Republic of the Rif (1921–1926).
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1920· 1 entry
Abd el-Krim, together with his brother, began a war of rebellion against the Spanish incursions
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1910· 1 entry
Abd el-Krim took a position as secretary-interpreter in the Native Affairs Office in Melilla, which brought him into close contact with the Spanish military bureaucracy and the town's civil society and gained a reputatio
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1907· 1 entry
Was hired to edit and write articles in Arabic for El Telegrama del Rif, where he defended the advantages of European—especially Spanish—civilization and technology and their potential to elevate the economic and cult
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1882· 1 entry
Born 1882-01-12.
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