Morocco: The Rif War (TRIH ep 282)
1921 · Resource
In this World Cup Marathon episode on Morocco, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the Rif War of the early 20th century — a violent anti‑colonial conflict in the Rif Mountains of northern Morocco that peaked in the 1920s. Dominic outlines the rise of Mohammed Abdel Krim from a family once allied with Spain to leader of the Berber resistance, and the catastrophic Spanish defeat at Annual in July 1921 under General Manuel Fernández Silvestre.
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Around 1921
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)
- Stalin's rule of the Soviet Union (1924)