Spanish West Africa

Spanish West Africa
África Occidental Española
Spanish colony
1946–1958


Flag

Northwestern African territories under Spanish control in 1912.
Some of these would later be grouped to form Spanish West Africa.
Capital Villa Cisneros
Languages Spanish
Arabic
Religion Roman Catholicism
Islam
Political structure Colony
Royal Commissioner
 •  1885–1886 Emilio Bonelli Hernando
Governor
 • 1946–1949 (first) José Bermejo López
 • 1958 (last) José Héctor Vázquez
High Commissioner
 • 1939–1940 (first) Juan Luis Beigbeder y Atienza
 • 1951–1956 (last) Rafael García Valiño
History
 •  Established December 26, 1946
 •  Disestablished April 10, 1958
Currency Spanish peseta
Preceded by 		Succeeded by
Sidi_Ifni#History
Spanish Morocco
Spanish Sahara
Ifni
Morocco
Spanish Sahara

Spanish West Africa (Spanish: África Occidental Española) is a former possession in the western Sahara Desert that Spain ruled after giving much of its former northwestern African possessions to Morocco. It was created in December 1946, and combined Ifni, Cape Juby and Spanish Sahara.

History

Spanish Colonization

The first Spaniard arrived in western Africa at the end of the Middle Ages. The very first may have been the Balearic traveler Jaume Ferrer who disappeared in 1375 on the journey off the African coast,[1] or one of the Castilians who landed at Boujdour in 1405 and attacked a caravan there.[2]

Governors

References

  1. ↑ Russell, Peter E. (1995) Portugal, Spain, and the African Atlantic, 1343-1490: chivalry and crusade from John of Gaunt to Henry the Navigator, Varorium.
  2. ↑ Besenyǒ, János (2010). "Western-Sahara under the Spanish Empire" (PDF). AARMS. 9 (2). pp. 195–215. Retrieved 9 April 2012.

See also

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