What the records say
- When
- Mar 1956 – Apr 1958
- Kind
- Territorial claim
- Coordinates
- 27.90° N, 12.90° W
- Region
- 3
- Claim resolution
- 4
- Claim violence
- 1
- Significance
- 8
- Significance index
- 3
- Significance state1
- 5
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Tarfaya
Place in Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra, Morocco
Tarfaya is a coastal Moroccan town, located at the level of Cape Juby, in western Morocco, on the Atlantic coast. It is located about 890 km southwest of the capital Rabat, and around 100 km from both Laayoune and Lanzarote, in the far east of the Canary Islands. During the colonial era, Tarfaya was a Spanish colony known as Villa Bens.
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The source
- ICOW Territorial Claims 1816–2001Issue Correlates of WarCorrelates of War: free use with citation