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How much of the Spanish protectorate did Abd el-Krim control at the height of his power?

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Spanish soldiers operate artillery cannons in a desert landscape near Melilla, with smoke billowing as a cannon fires during a 1930s battle. — Rif War Spanish artillery firing outside Melilla during the Rif War.

At the height of his power in early 1925, Abd el-Krim controlled almost three-quarters of the Spanish protectorate in Morocco.1

Following his decisive victory against Spanish forces at Annoual in 1921 and the subsequent Rif War, Abd el-Krim established the Republic of the Rif. By 1925, he successfully exploited a power vacuum created by Spanish military withdrawals to expand his influence across the region, implementing a centralized bureaucracy and a Muslim legal code within the territories under his control.12