AGADIR, ii-ga-der', an Atlantic seaport of Morocco, northwestern Africa, 375 miles from Tangier and 64 miles from Mogador, in lat. 30° 27' N. and long. 9° 36' W. It is famous simply because its name has been so prominently associated with the Franco-German crisis of 1911. In the summer of that year, while France was establishing a protectorate in Morocco against the wishes of the inhabit ants, the German warship Panther was sud denly sent to Agadir. The most powerful of the Moroccan chiefs were entertained aboard and were promised German support in resisting French control. For a time war seemed im minent between France and Germany, both na tions mobilizing troops on their frontiers. After some delay an accord was published on 3 November in which Germany recognized the right of France to establish a protectorate in Morocco, and France ceded to Germany about 250,000 square kilometers of land in the French Kongo, bordering the German colony of Kam erun, and other commercial and economic pro visions were added. Both nations engaged to
obtain the adhesion to this accord of the other nations who were signatories of the Algeciras act. At the waterfront there is a miserable hamlet of fishermen called Fonti; the town it self, built on the crest of a hill about 660 feet in height and a short distance away, is sur rounded by walls with Saracenic towers. It was an outpost of Moroccan Islam: a closed port — closed, that is, to general commerce. Pop. about 1,000. Consult: Albin, P.,