A medical practitioner who specializes in this area is known as a pediatrician, or paediatrician. The word paediatrics and its cognates mean healer of children; they derive from two Greek words: ÏÎ±á¿Ï (pais child) and á¼°Î±ÏÏÏÏ (iatros doctor, healer).
Spanish colonial campaigns. The Rif War, also called the Second Moroccan War, was fought in the early 1920s between the colonial power Spain (later assisted by France) and the Moroccan Berbers of the Rif mountainous region. Spain and France in combined action in 1926 won a decisive victory.
The attack lead to the deaths of 10,000 Rif warriors. In May of 1924, the French Army fortified the Oureghla River. They worried the Rif War would spill over into its African territory. Eleven months later, the Rif decided to attack the French lines, and show the European powers their true strength. Within two weeks, 40 of the 66 French outposts along the river were stormed and abandoned.