Metadata: Spanish High Commissioner in Morocco
Collection
- Country:
- Spain
- Holding institution:
- General Archive of the Administration
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archivo General de la Administracion
- Postal address:
- Calle Paseo de Aguadores 2. 28871 - Alcala de Henares
- Phone number:
- +34 918 892 950
- Email:
- aga@cultura.gob.es
- Reference number:
- ES.28005.AGA/2.5.5.2.1
- Title:
- Spanish High Commissioner in Morocco
- Title (official language):
- Alta Comisaria de España en Marruecos
- Creator/accumulator:
- Spanish High Commissioner in Morocco (Alta Comisaria de España en Marruecos)
- Date(s):
- 1750/1979
- Language:
- Spanish; Castilian
- Extent:
- 4,990 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- Good
- Scope and content:
-
This collection is made up of documents produced and kept by the Spanish High Commissioner in Morocco during the Spanish Protectorate (1913-1956). The collection contains information about correspondence, judicial proceedings, offices of intervention and information, indigenous communal bodies, recruitment files, works projects, political prisoners, Kabyles (members of the Berber North African group), tax matters, agricultural services, public works and mines, economic and financial matters, and health projects.
Concerning Jews, the information is provided by the Diplomatic Cabinet. It contains information about the relations between naturalized Spanish Jews and Muslims in the French protectorate in Morocco (1948) and about the weekly meat export to the Jewish community in Gibraltar (1945-46). There is also documentation related to an antisemitic campaign carried out in Ksar el-Kebir and Larache in 1934.
- Archival history:
- The Spanish Ministry of Culture transferred this documentary fonds to the Spanish General Archive of Administration in February 1994.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Spanish High Commissioner in Morocco was created in 1913 and was the highest Spanish administrative agency in the Spanish Protectorate in Morocco. The High Commissioner, the highest Spanish authority in the territory, which was in charge of the civil and military competences, managed the Spanish administration in the Protectorate. This agency, which guided the Spanish political action in the Protectorate, was divided in several departments (Native Affairs, Development and Finance). The Spanish High Commissioner in Morocco was dissolved in 1956 after Moroccan independence.
- Access points: locations:
- Gibraltar
- Ksar el-Kebir
- Larache
- Morocco
- Spain
- Access, restrictions:
- Free access regulated by the current legal environment on access to Spanish historical archives (law 16/1985 of Spanish Historical Patrimony).
- Finding aids:
- Data on the collection are available at the website of the Spanish National Archives (PARES)
- Links to finding aids:
- https://pares.culturaydeporte.gob.es/inicio.html
- Yerusha Network member:
- Spanish National Research Council
- Author of the description:
- Marina Girona Berenguer; ILC, CSIC; November 2019