History of Agadir

History of Agadir

The Portuguese established a trading base in 1505 and named it as Santa Cruz do Cabo de Gué. In 1541, the city was brought under Wattasid, and the city developed slowly on the top of a hill, commanding the bay. The Agadir Crisis also known as the Second Moroccan Crisis started in1911, the international tension commenced with the landing of German forces in the Moroccan Port. It sparked off the British interest. At the end of nineteenth century, there were many others in the name of helping trying to oust each other in the power game, including Spain, Italy to conquer and increase their colonial expansion.

There started a power struggle between France and German, with the former establishing a claim over Morocco on March 30, 1912, ending the independence of the erstwhile free country. The Agadir agreement for the formation of Free Trade Zone was signed on 25 February 2004 in Rabat. The Agreement was aimed to form a free trade relations with Jordan, Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco, and was the very fist step for the development of Euro-Mediterranean free trade and the Greater Arab Free Trade. Though Lebanon and Syria wanted to join but the process did not attend completion. Others who wanted to join the band wagon are Algeria, Libya, Mauritania and the Palestinian Authority.

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