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guidelines for reliable sources. (July 2007)| Greater Morocco is
a label historically used by some Moroccan anti-colonial
political leaders protesting against Spanish, Algerian and
French rule, to refer to wider territories historically
associated with the Moroccan Sultan. Current usage most
frequently occurs in a critical context accusing Morocco,
largely in discussing the disputed Western Sahara, of
irredentist claims on neighbouring territories.
Irredentists[who?], official and unofficial Moroccan claims on
territories viewed by Moroccans as having been under some form
of Moroccan sovereignty before the colonial era (most frequently
with respect to the Spanish enclaves) are rhetorically tied back
to an accused expansionism. However, Moroccan government claims
make no current reference to the greater Morocco concept, which
appears to have died out in the 1970s, except for the case of
Western