The protégé system (Arabic: نظام المحميين) in Morocco in the late 19th century allowed people working for foreign consuls and vice-consuls certain privileges and legal protections not available to the rest of the population, such as exemption from taxes imposed by the Makhzen and protections from a sometimes arbitrary judicial system. At first the status of protégé was available only to Moroccans—Muslims and Jews—but it was extended to Europeans by the 1860s.
The protégé system (Arabic: نظام المحميين) in Morocco in the late 19th century allowed people working for foreign consuls and vice-consuls certain privileges and legal protections not available to the rest of the population, such as exemption from taxes imposed by the Makhzen and protections from a sometimes arbitrary judicial system. At first the status of protégé was available only to Moroccans—Muslims and Jews—but it was extended to Europeans by the 1860s.
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