Ceuta is a Spanish exclave in North Africa, located on a northern tip of the Maghreb, on the Mediterranean coast near the Strait of Gibraltar. It is known in Arabic as سبتة (Sabtah in Standard Arabic, Sebta in Morocco). Its area is approximately 28 km². Ceuta is dominated by a hill called Monte Hacho, on which there is a fort occupied by the Spanish army. Monte Hacho is one of the possible locations for the southern Pillars of Hercules of Greek Legend, the other possibility being Jebel Musa. Ceu ...

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Ceuta's strategic location has made it the crucial waypoint of many cultures' trade and military ventures — beginning with the Carthaginians in the 5th century BC (They called the city Abyla). It wasn't until the Romans took control in about AD 42, however, that the port city (named Septem at the time) assumed an almost exclusive military purpose. Approximately 400 years later, the Vandals ousted the Romans for control, and later it fell to the Visigoths of Spain or to the Byzantines. In 710, as Muslim invade ...

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Melilla was a Phoenician and later Punic establishment under the name of Rusadir. Later it became a part of the Roman province of Hispania Nova Ulterior Tingitana in Hispania . As centuries passed, it went through Vandal, Byzantine and Hispano-Visigothic hands. Melilla was on the frontier of the Kingdom of Tlemcen and the Kingdom of Fes when the Juan Alfonso Perez de Guzman El Bueno 3rd Duke of Medina Sidonia reconquered it in 1497, a few years after Castille had taken control of ...

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Melilla sports the only Gothic arch in Africa. During the change from the 19th to the 20th century, Melilla was prosperous. A new bourgeois class expressed its prestige in the architectural style of Modernisme, the Catalan version of Art Nouveau, which was then in vogue in Spain. The workshops inspired by Catalan architect, Enrique Nieto, continued in the modernist style, even after it went out of fashion elsewhere. So Melilla has the second most important concentration of Mo ...

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Special member state territories and their relations with the EU - Netherlands Antilles and Aruba. Though they are parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba are overseas countries and territories, listed under Annex II of the EC treaty. Hence EC law does not apply there. The euro is not legal tender (the local currencies – Antillean guilder and Aruba florin – are pegged to the U.S. dollar). Dutch nationals related to these territories are fully European citizens; howev ...

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710 - Events. End of the Asuka period, the second and last part of the Yamato period and beginning of the Nara period in Japan. Founding of the Muslim Kingdom of Nekor in Morocco. Muslim army invited into Ceuta by its governor, Count Julian, who, being an opponent of Roderick, encourages them to invade the Iberian peninsula. The first (wooden) Al-Aqsa Mosque is finished. Roderick deposes Achila to become king of the Visigoths. 710 - DeathsIncluding:

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This article is about the year. For other uses, see 42 (number). 42 - Events. Romans take control of Ceuta. Roman emperor Claudius is also a Roman Consul. Suro becomes the first king of Geumgwan Gaya in the Korean peninsula. 42 - Deaths. Category: 42 ...

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The Banu Isam were a Muslim Berber dynasty that ruled Ceuta, North Africa, for four generations. The town had been destroyed in a Kharijite rebellion, and was lying waste; sometime in the middle of the ninth century, Mâjakas, chief of the Majkasa tribe, resettled it and founded a dynasty that ruled the town until the Umayyads took it over in 931. Its kings were: Mâjakas `Isâm, son of Mâjakas Majîr, son of `Isâm Ridâ, son of `Isâm (?-931), who paid allegiance to the Idrisids, but surrendered the city to the Umayyads when the Idrisid capital ...

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Spain's fifty provinces (provincias) are grouped into seventeen autonomous communities (comunidades autónomas), in addition to two African autonomous cities (ciudades autónomas) (Ceuta and Melilla). Autonomous communities of Spain - Formation and powers. Centralism, nationalism and separatism played an important role in the Spanish transition. For fear that separatism would lead to instability and a dictatorial backlash, a compromise was struck among the moderate political part ...

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Al-Idrisi (b.1100-d.1165 or 1166) full name Abu Abd Allah Muhammad al-Idrisi was an Arab cartographer, geographer and traveller who lived in Sicily, at the court of King Roger II. Muhammad al-Idrisi was born in Sabtah, then belonging to the Almoravid Empire (nowadays Ceuta, Spain) and died in Sicily, or maybe in Sabtah. In 1154 al-Idrisi made a large, south-oriented mappa mundi known as the Tabula Rogeriana and an accompanying book, named Geography. Taken together, they were named Nuzhat al-Mushtak by Roge ...

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Special member state territories and their relations with the EU - Azores and Madeira. According to the EC treaty (article 299 2), Azores and Madeira are outermost regions; provisions of the EC treaty apply there while derogations are allowed. Hence the euro is legal tender. Both places pay VAT taxes. ...

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Special member state territories and their relations with the EU - Canary Islands. According to the EC treaty (article 299 2), Canary Islands constitute an outermost region; provisions of the EC treaty apply there while derogations are allowed. Hence the euro is legal tender. Full EU law applies on the Canary Islands, but with special tax provisions (outside EU VAT Area). Sp ...

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This table summarises the various components of EU laws applied in the EU member states and their sovereign territories. ██ current Eurozone countries ██ ERM II members < ...

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Demilitarized zone - Africa. Ceuta and Melilla, Spanish goverment controlled cities at North Morocco. Between Melilla & Ceuta and Morocco where is an demilitarized zone. Morocco hasn't recognized Ceuta and Melilla as part of Spain. See: Ceuta border fence and Melilla border fence. Demilitarized zone - Europe. The Cypriot demilitarized zone separates the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus from the Republic of Cyprus. It was ...

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Demilitarized zone - Africa. Ceuta and Melilla, Spanish government controlled cities at North Morocco. Between Melilla & Ceuta (both under Spanish controll) and Morocco lies a demilitarized zone. Morocco has never recognized Ceuta and Melilla as part of Spain. See: Ceuta border fence and Melilla border fence. Demilitarized zone - Europe. The Cypriot demilitarized zone separates the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus from th ...

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Demilitarized zone - Africa. Ceuta and Melilla, Spanish government controlled cities at North Morocco. Between Melilla & Ceuta (both under Spanish control) and Morocco lies a demilitarized zone. Morocco has never recognized Ceuta and Melilla as part of Spain. See: Ceuta border fence and Melilla border fence. Demilitarized zone - Europe. The Cypriot demilitarized zone separates the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus from the ...

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Special member state territories and their relations with the EU - Crown dependencies. The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man are not part of the United Kingdom, and are excluded from EU legislation (unless otherwise stated) by both treaties of Rome as amended in 1973 by British accession. British citizens of these islands are European citizens if they have either at least one parent or grandparent born in the United Kingdom, or have acquired European citizenship through residency in the European Union, o ...

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With the rise of Roderic to the throne of the Visigoths in Hispania, and with the death in 710 CE of the previous king, Wittiza, the relatives and partisans of the latter fled to Ceuta (Septa), the Pillar of Hercules in North Africa on the northern shore of the Maghreb. In Ceuta, Visigothic rivals of Roderic gathered along with Arians and Jews fleeing forced conversions at the hands of the Catholic bishops who controlled the Visigothic monarchy. The count of Ceuta was one Julian, who the Muslims called Ilyan. Though he was technically ...

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The city was founded in the 3rd century BC. Artefacts from both the Roman and the Phoenician era have been found. Around 1305 a city was built here by the Merinid king Abu Thabit. It served as a base for attacks on Ceuta. Around 1400 it was destroyed by the Spanish, because pirates used it for their attacks. By the end of the 15th century it was rebuilt by refugees from the reconquista (reconquest of Spain). The city is situated in the area of Morocco which was formerly ruled by Spain. In 1913 it became the capital of the part ...

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Tétouan, Tétouan - History of Tétouan, Tétouan - Sights in and around Tétouan

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