There are several similarities between Morocco and Poland, as both countries were founded in the Middle Ages, both were middle powers in Northwest Africa and Central Europe, respectively, and both, at different times, rose to great power status,[1][2][3] yet for centuries there were no official relations given the separating distance.

[6][7][8][9] Both Moroccan and Polish POWs were subjected to poor treatment by the Germans, who regarded them as "racially inferior".

[10] Poles and Moroccans were part of the large Allied coalition in the Battle of Monte Cassino of 1944.

[17] In January 2010, Abbas El Fassi became the first Moroccan Prime Minister to pay an official visit to Poland.

[18] In April 2010, Abbas El Fassi attended the state funeral of Lech and Maria Kaczyński in Kraków despite the air travel disruption after the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption.