Sultan Yusef ben Hassan (1882–November 17, 1927) ruled Morocco

Morocco

Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

 from 1912 until his death in 1927. Born in the city of Meknes

Meknes

Meknes is a city in northern Morocco, located from the capital Rabat and from Fes. It is served by the A2 expressway between those two cities and by the corresponding railway. Meknes was the capital of Morocco under the reign of Moulay Ismail , before it was relocated to Marrakech. The...

 to Sultan

Sultan

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 Hassan I

Hassan I of Morocco

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, he inherited the throne from his brother, Sultan Abdelhafid

Abdelhafid of Morocco

Abdelhafid of Morocco was the Sultan of Morocco from 1908 to 1912 and a member of the Alaouite Dynasty. His younger brother, Abdelaziz of Morocco, preceded him...

, who abdicated after the Treaty of Fez

Treaty of Fez

By the Treaty of Fez , signed March 30, 1912, Sultan Abdelhafid gave up the sovereignty of Morocco to the French, making the country a protectorate, resolving the Agadir Crisis of July 1, 1911....

 (1912), which made Morocco a French

France

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 protectorate

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. He was a member of the Alaouite Dynasty

Alaouite Dynasty

The Alaouite Dynasty is the name of the current Moroccan royal family. The name Alaouite comes from the ‘Alī of its founder Moulay Ali Cherif who became Prince of Tafilalt in 1631. His son Mulay r-Rshid was able to unite and pacify the country...

. His mother was Lalla Ruqiya, fifth wife of his father.

Yusef's reign was turbulent and marked with frequent uprisings against Spain and France. The most serious of these was a Berber

Berber people

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 uprising in the Rif Mountains, led by Abd el-Krim. Though this originally began in the Spanish

Spain

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-controlled area in the north of the country, it reached to the French-controlled area until a coalition of France and Spain finally defeated the rebels in 1925. To ensure his own safety, Yusef moved the court from Fez to Rabat, which has served as the capital of the country ever since.

Yusef's reign came to an abrupt end when he died suddenly of uremia

Uremia

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 in 1927. He was succeeded by his son Muhammad

Mohammed V of Morocco

Mohammed V was Sultan of Morocco from 1927–53, exiled from 1953–55, where he was again recognized as Sultan upon his return, and King from 1957 to 1961. His full name was Sidi Mohammed ben Yusef, or Son of Yusef, upon whose death he succeeded to the throne...

.

Honours

• Order of Blood of Tunisia
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• Grand Cross of the Legion d'Honneur
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   of France
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  -1912
• Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG)-1917
• Grand Cross of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus
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   of the Kingdom of Italy
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• Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown (Belgium)
  Order of the Crown (Belgium)
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• Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic of the Kingdom of Spain
• Grand Cordon of the Order of Muhammad Ali of the Kingdom of Egypt
  Kingdom of Egypt
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