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When did Spain declare the Rif region officially pacified?

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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.

Spain declared the Rif region officially pacified in July 1927. Although the main conflict of the Rif War concluded in May 1926 following the surrender of Abd el-Krim, Spanish forces required an additional year to eliminate remaining pockets of resistance within their protectorate.12