Treaty of Madrid (1880)

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Treaty of Madrid (1880)

The Treaty of Madrid (1880) was a treaty drafted during an international conference in Madrid upon the request of Sultan Hassan I of Morocco. Governments with interests in Morocco participated. This treaty served to regulate and make European conquests of Moroccan territories official with respect to the international community.[1]

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The Treaty of Madrid (1880) was the result of the Conference of Madrid held during 1880 in that city by request of Hassan I, Sultan of Morocco, due to alleged abuses of the protégé system (privileges for Moroccans employed by foreign governments) by the French and Spanish. The treaty resulting was a collection of agreements between the Sultan and several European governments, to give the powers the ownership of Moroccan lands they had seized, the resources present on these lands, settlement rights and to employ locals on these lands. This treaty served to regulate and make these conquests official with respect to the international community.^[2][3]