Moroccan Debt Administration

The Moroccan Debt Administration (French: administration de la dette marocaine), formally known as the Contrôle de la dette from 1904 to 1910 and after that as the Administration du Contrôle de la dette publique mahghzénienne (referring to the Moroccan monarchy as the Makhzen),[1]: 57  was an entity set up by the French government in 1904 to administer the sovereign debt of the Moroccan Monarchy.

[1] The Moroccan Debt Administration originated in 1904, as Morocco's sovereign debt, which had increased significantly following the Hispano-Moroccan War (1859–1860) and the First Melillan campaign of 1894, was restructured by the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas (BPPB) in coordination with the French government.

[3] An indirect consequence of the 1904 debt restructuring was the establishment of the State Bank of Morocco in 1907, also in Tangier, following the Algeciras Conference of 1906.

[7] Shortly after Moroccan independence in 1957, it was the seat of the Comité International d'Initiative et de Tourisme, an association of businessmen for the improvement of the Tangier economy that issued a monthly publication titled Tanger.

[9] It also houses the personal library donated in 1985 to the City of Tangier by influential scholar Abdellah Guennoun, whose volumes were transferred there after his death in 1989.