Everything about French Morocco totally explained
French Morocco (
Fr. Maroc) was a
protectorate of
France established by the
Treaty of Fez in what is now the country of
Morocco, minus the north which was a Spanish protectorate and
Western Sahara. It existed from
1912, when a
protectorate was formally established, until Moroccan independence (
2 March 1956), and consisted generally of the area of Morocco between
Fez and
Rabat south to
Mogador.
French activity in Morocco began during the
19th century; in
1904 France and Spain secretly partitioned the territory of the sultanate, with Spain later creating
Spanish Morocco from its portion.
The French minted coinage for use in the Protectorate from 1921 until 1956, which continued to circulate until a new currency was introduced. The French minted coins with denomination of
francs, which were divided into 100
centimes. This was replaced in 1974 with the reintroduction of the
dirham, Morocco's current currency.
Postal history
A French postal agency had sent
mail from
Tangier as early as
1854, but the formal beginning of the system was in
1891, when French
post offices were established throughout the sultanate. The offices issued
postage stamps of France
surcharged with values in
pesetas and
centimos, at a 1-1 ratio with the denominations in
French currency, using both the
Type Sage issues, and after
1902,
Mouflon issue inscribed "MAROC" (which were never officially issued without the surcharge). In
1911, the Mouflon designs were overprinted in
Arabic; in the same year, the
Sherifian post was created to handle local mail, using special stamps.
The first stamps of the protectorate appeared
1 August 1914, and were just the existing stamps with the additional overprint reading "PROTECTORAT FRANCAIS". The first new designs were in an issue of
1917, consisting of 17 stamps in six designs, denominated in
centimes and
francs, and inscribed "MAROC".
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