Idrisids

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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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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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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After the Almohads, the Merinds ruled in Morocco until they were overthrown by the Saadites in the 15th century. During the murderous scenes which were enacted in 1391 in Seville and were repeated in a large part of Spain and then across the sea in Majorca, the Spanish Jews were glad to seize the first opportunity to emigrate to North Africa in order to escape the persucution in Spain. A hundred years later, when the Jews were driven out of Spain in 1492 and Portugal in 1496, the sudden inroad upon Morocco and the whole of north Africa was r ...

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History of the Jews in Morocco, History of the Jews in Morocco - Under the Romans, History of the Jews in Morocco - Arab Conquest and the Idrisids 703-1146, History of the Jews in Morocco - Under the Almohads 1146-1400s, History of the Jews in Morocco - The Merinds and the Saadites, History of the Jews in Morocco - Under Al-Raschid and Ismail, History of the Jews in Morocco - In the eighteenth century, History of the Jews in Morocco - In the nineteenth century, History of the Jews in Morocco - Montefiore's journey to Morocco, History of the Jews in Morocco - Modern times, History of the Jews in Morocco - Notes

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In 1948, approximately 265,000 Jews lived in Morocco. Between 5,000 and 8,000 live there now, mostly in Casablanca, but also in Fez and other cities. In June 1948, soon after Israel was established and in the midst of the first Arab-Israeli war, riots against Jews broke out in Oujda and Djerada, killing 44 Jews. In 1948-9, 18,000 Jews left the country for Israel. After this, Jewish emigration continued (to Israel and elsewhere), but slowed to a few thousand a year. Through the early fifties, Zionist organizations encouraged emigration, particularly in the poorer south of the country, see ...

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History of the Jews in Morocco, History of the Jews in Morocco - Under the Romans, History of the Jews in Morocco - Arab Conquest and the Idrisids 703-1146, History of the Jews in Morocco - Under the Almohads 1146-1400s, History of the Jews in Morocco - The Merinds and the Saadites, History of the Jews in Morocco - Under Al-Raschid and Ismail, History of the Jews in Morocco - In the eighteenth century, History of the Jews in Morocco - In the nineteenth century, History of the Jews in Morocco - Montefiore's journey to Morocco, History of the Jews in Morocco - Modern times, History of the Jews in Morocco - Notes

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The 19th century, which brought emancipation to the Jews of most lands, left those of Morocco on the whole in their old state of sad monotony and stagnation. Every new war in which Morocco became involved in that century with any foreign country sacrificed the Jews of one district or another of the sultanate to the general depression and discontent which an unsuccessful war usually calls forth in political and commercial life. The war with France in 1844 brought new misery and ill treatment upon the Moroccan Jews, especially upon those of Mo ...

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History of the Jews in Morocco, History of the Jews in Morocco - Under the Romans, History of the Jews in Morocco - Arab Conquest and the Idrisids 703-1146, History of the Jews in Morocco - Under the Almohads 1146-1400s, History of the Jews in Morocco - The Merinds and the Saadites, History of the Jews in Morocco - Under Al-Raschid and Ismail, History of the Jews in Morocco - In the eighteenth century, History of the Jews in Morocco - In the nineteenth century, History of the Jews in Morocco - Montefiore's journey to Morocco, History of the Jews in Morocco - Modern times, History of the Jews in Morocco - Notes

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The Jews suffered much during the great conquests of Al-Raschid (Moulay Rschid), who united the separate parts of Morocco into one single state, and wished to add to it all northwest Africa. According to Chénier, when Al-Raschid took the city of Marrakech in 1670, at the desire of the inhabitants he caused the Jewish councilor and governor of the ruling prince Abu Bakr, together with the latter and his whole family, to be publicly burned, in order to inspire terror among the Jews ^{See also:}

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Ceuta is known officially in Spanish as Ciudad Autónoma de Ceuta, the Autonomous City of Ceuta, having a rank between a standard Spanish city and an autonomous community. Before the Statute of Autonomy, Ceuta was administratively part of the Cádiz province. Ceuta forms part of the territory of the European Union. The city was a free port before Spain joined the European Union in 1986. Now it has a low-taxes system inside the European Monetary Syste ...

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When the Jews began to spread over the Roman empire after the dissolution of the Jewish state in 70, many of them doubtless settled in Mauritania. These settlers engaged in agriculture, cattle-raising, and trades. They were divided into bodies akin to tribes, governed by their respective heads, and had to pay the Romans a capitation-tax of 2 shekels. Under the dominion of the Romans and after 429 of the Vandals the Mauritanian Jews increased and prospered to such a degree that Church councils of Africa found it necessary to take a sta ...

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History of the Jews in Morocco, History of the Jews in Morocco - Under the Romans, History of the Jews in Morocco - Arab Conquest and the Idrisids 703-1146, History of the Jews in Morocco - Under the Almohads 1146-1400s, History of the Jews in Morocco - The Merinds and the Saadites, History of the Jews in Morocco - Under Al-Raschid and Ismail, History of the Jews in Morocco - In the eighteenth century, History of the Jews in Morocco - In the nineteenth century, History of the Jews in Morocco - Montefiore's journey to Morocco, History of the Jews in Morocco - Modern times, History of the Jews in Morocco - Notes

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It was the Berber Jewess Dahiyah, or Damia, known as Kahinah, who aroused her people in the Aures, the eastern spurs of the Atlas, to a last although fruitless resistance to the Arab general Hasan ibn Nu'man, and herself died in 703. As in the Hellenic lands of Christendom, so also in Mauritania, Judaism involuntarily prepared the way for Islam; and the conversion of the Berbers to Islam took place so much the more easily. Many Jewish tribes of the Berbers also ...

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History of the Jews in Morocco, History of the Jews in Morocco - Under the Romans, History of the Jews in Morocco - Arab Conquest and the Idrisids 703-1146, History of the Jews in Morocco - Under the Almohads 1146-1400s, History of the Jews in Morocco - The Merinds and the Saadites, History of the Jews in Morocco - Under Al-Raschid and Ismail, History of the Jews in Morocco - In the eighteenth century, History of the Jews in Morocco - In the nineteenth century, History of the Jews in Morocco - Montefiore's journey to Morocco, History of the Jews in Morocco - Modern times, History of the Jews in Morocco - Notes

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The condition of the Jewish community was unchanged under Mohammed III (1757-89), who distinguished himself by his attempt to introduce European culture into his kingdom. His eldest son, Moulay Ali, governor of Fez, courageously opposed his father's suggestion to impose a tax upon that city in favor of his other brothers, which tax was to be paid by the Jewish community. He stated that the Jews of Fez were already so poor that they were unable to bear the present tax and that he was not willing to increase still further their excessive miser ...

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History of the Jews in Morocco, History of the Jews in Morocco - Under the Romans, History of the Jews in Morocco - Arab Conquest and the Idrisids 703-1146, History of the Jews in Morocco - Under the Almohads 1146-1400s, History of the Jews in Morocco - The Merinds and the Saadites, History of the Jews in Morocco - Under Al-Raschid and Ismail, History of the Jews in Morocco - In the eighteenth century, History of the Jews in Morocco - In the nineteenth century, History of the Jews in Morocco - Montefiore's journey to Morocco, History of the Jews in Morocco - Modern times, History of the Jews in Morocco - Notes

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