[Dx-qsl] Old DXCC

[Buzz Jehle]

>        Can someone tell me where Spanish Morocco is/was?  It is 
> Morocco less Ceuta and Mellia. Spain handed over most of northern 
> Morocco to the newly independent kingdom of Morocco in 1956, they kept 
> Ceuta and Melilla (about 250 kms further east) as well as some 
> uninhabited islands off the northern coast.
>
>        According to my 2002 ARRL DXCC list there is one deleted
>        entity under EA9 - Ifni - which was ceded to Morocco in 1959,
>        but not deleted for DXCC until 1969.
>
>        Current EA9 is Ceuta and Melilla (Twin cities).
>
>        Where do my cards from Tetuan (1952) (across from Gibralter a 
> little to east)  (Spanish Morocco)
>        and Alcazarkiva Many spellings in English, a town inland 
> between Tangier and Rabat (Morocco via Spanish buro) belong. Spelling 
> these city names in English is confusing, as like the Chinese place 
> names it appears there may be several spellings, and some may have 
> changed entirely. Your cards are both Morocco, sorry.

Spanish Morocco = Morocco for DXCC, it just got its independence.  Ifni 
is in Southern Morocco on the coast like Ceuta and was ceded to Morocco 
as you said.  Spanish Sahara further to the south is now what we know 
as S0

73 and Happy Holidays, Buzz N5UR ex G4VHD V73T etc
>


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