Morocco Historical Flags

(from 1062 to 1912)

Last modified: 2005-07-30 by antonio martins
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• Summary
• Chequered flag (11-13 c.)
• “Scissors” flag (17-19 c.)
• War flag as of 1848
• “Moor” flag as of 1848
• Battle flags with Marinid emblem (18-20 c.)

• Moorish Guard of Henry IV of Castile 1454-1479
• Colonial Morocco (clickable map)
• French Protectorate of Morocco (1912-1946)
• Spanish Protectorate of Morocco (1912-1956)
  • Ifni-Sahara Maritime Province (1946-1975)
• International Zone of Tangiers (1912-1956)
• Republic of Er Rif (1920-1926)
• Morocco

• History of Moroccan flags, available from different addresses:
  • http://www.geocities.com/Baja/Mesa/3141/flaghistory.htm
    reported by Dov Gutterman, 17 Apr 1999
  • http://eleves.enpc.fr/eleves/ouakkas/morocco/drapeau.html,
    reported by Dov Gutterman, 09 Apr 2000
  • http://maghreb.net/countries/morocco/flaghistory.html,
    reported by Jarig Bakker, 02 May 1999
  • and possibly more…

Summary

Pre-Arab flags (before 8th cent.)

The first inhabitants of Morocco were nomadic Berber tribes. The Phoenicians established counters on the coast around the XIIth century BP and founded Carthage (now in Tunisia). The Romans destroyed Carthage in 146 BP, but the romanisation of Morocco remained very weak. In 429, the Vandals from Spain invaded Morocco, which was eventually incorporated to the Byzantine Empire by Justinian in 534.
Ivan Sache, 15 Jun 2003, based on [lux01]

Early Arab flags (8th to 9th cent.)

In the beginning of the VIIIth century, the Arab chief Musa bin Nosayr seized Tangiers, established a governor in the city, and introduced Islam on Morocco. The Berbers were converted to Islam but revolted in 740 and founded independant principalities in the Rif mountains. Princes Idris I (d. 791) and Idris II (d. 828) ruled all the Berber tribes