Spain creates a protectorate in the coastal…
1876 CE to 1887 CE
While initial Spanish interest in the Sahara had been focused on using it as a port for the slave trade, by the 1700s Spain had transitioned economic activity on the Saharan coast towards commercial fishing.
After an agreement among the European colonial powers at the Berlin Conference in 1884 on the division of spheres of influence in Africa, Spain seizes control of Western Sahara and establishes it as a Spanish colony.
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