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Melilla and was
Melilla ( like Ceuta ) was a free port before Spain joined the European Union.
Melilla was a Phoenician and later Punic establishment under the name of Rusadir.
Melilla was immediately threatened with reconquest and was besieged 1694 – 1696 and 1774 – 1775.
One Spanish officer reflected, " an hour in Melilla, from the point of view of merit, was worth more than thirty years of service to Spain.
It was the first time a Spanish monarch had visited Melilla in 80 years.
Between 1979 and 1983, all the regions in Spain had been constituted as autonomous communities ; in 1996 the process was closed when the autonomous status of Ceuta and Melilla was passed.
The crisis over Isla Perejil was seen by the Spanish government as a way for Morocco to test the waters in regard to Spain's will to defend Ceuta and Melilla.
On the morning of August 29, 2012 there was an incident in which seven Moroccan activists of the Committee for the Liberation of Ceuta and Melilla stormed the rock and placed flags of Morocco, resulting in the arrest of four of them by Spanish soldiers.
Historically, a distinction was made between the so-called major sovereign territories, comprising the cities of Ceuta and Melilla, and the minor sovereign territories, referring to a number of smaller enclaves and islands along the coast.
The workshops established there by Catalan architect Enrique Nieto continued producing decorations in this style even when it was out of fashion in Barcelona, which results in Melilla having, oddly enough, the second largest concentration of Modernista works after Barcelona.
After his studies, in 1906, Abd el-Krim was sent to Melilla by his father.
Abd el-Krim entered the Spanish governmental structure, and was appointed chief qadi ( Muslim judge ) for Melilla in 1914.
He entered the Spanish administration, and was appointed chief judge of Melilla in 1915.
Melilla was only some 40 km away, but was in no position to help: the city itself was almost defenceless and lacked properly trained troops.
He was finally released without any charges brought against him, before being rearrested in May 2003 at the border crossing of the Spanish enclave of Melilla in North Africa.
Melilla had been part of Spain since 1497, neither was included formally in the Protectorate, but were ruled with the same provisions as in the rest of the Spanish mainland territory.
Considerable emphasis in external intelligence was allotted to North Africa and to the security of Ceuta and Melilla.
After the civil war he was named commander-in-chief of Melilla, in Spanish Morocco.
The two zones of the Spanish protectorate had few paved roads and were separated by the Bay of Al Hoceima, which the Spanish called Alhucemas ; the Treaty of Fez granted the concession for exploitation of the iron mines of Mount Uixan to the Spanish Rif Mines Company, which was also given permission to build a railroad to connect the mines with Melilla.
Mauretania Tingitana was a Roman province located in northwestern Africa, coinciding roughly with the northern part of present-day Morocco and Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla.

Melilla and part
The Spanish enclave of Ifni in the south became part of the new Morocco in 1969, but other Spanish possessions in the north ( Ceuta, Melilla and some small islands ) remain under Madrid's control, with Morocco viewing them as occupied territory.
There is considerable pressure by African refugees to enter Melilla, a part of the European Union.
Morocco has never recognized Ceuta and Melilla as part of Spain.
Two other independent tercios are deployed in the Spanish African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla as part of their respective garrisons.
** The northernmost provinces of the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco, now part of Morocco ( former provinces of Chefchaouen, Jebala, Kert, Loukkos and Rif ) and Spain ( Ceuta, Melilla and plazas de soberanía )

Melilla and Kingdom
In the Conquest of Melilla, the duke sent Pedro Estopiñán, who conquered the city virtually without a fight in 1497, a few years after ( 1492 ) Castile had taken control of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada, the last remnant of Al-Andalus.

Melilla and Fez
It is possible to travel from Melilla to Morocco on foot and then further using an ONCF train from nearby Beni Ansar (= Nador Port Railway station ) which is probably the most convenient method of travel to Taourirt, Fez and Casablanca or Tangier.

Melilla and when
However, the Siege of Melilla ( 1774 ) against the Spanish ended in defeat in 1775 when British aid failed to materialize.

Melilla and Isabella
The Ottoman Empire had long menaced the fringes of the Habsburg dominions in Austria and northwest Africa, and in response Ferdinand and Isabella had sent expeditions to North Africa, capturing Melilla in 1497 and Oran in 1509.

Melilla and Castile
It comprises 17 autonomous communities ( Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castile and León, Castile – La Mancha, Catalonia, Extremadura, Galicia, La Rioja, Community of Madrid, Region of Murcia, Basque Country, Valencian Community, Navarre ) and 2 autonomous cities ( Ceuta and Melilla ).
* Most speakers in coastal dialects may debuccalize syllable-final to, or drop it entirely, so that está (" s / he is ") sounds like or, as in southern Spain ( Andalusia, Murcia, Castile – La Mancha ( except North-East ), Madrid, Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla ).

Melilla and King
The Minister of War ordered the creation of an investigative commission, directed by the honored general Juan Picasso González, which developed the report known as the Expediente Picasso, which, despite calling out numerous military mistakes, owing to the obstructive action of various ministers and judges did not go so far as to lay political responsibility for the defeat, which popular opinion widely placed upon King Alfonso XIII, who according to several sources had encouraged Silvestre's irresponsible penetration of positions far from Melilla without having adequate defenses in his rear.
After Moroccan independence in 1956 and the death of King Mohammed V, the government of King Hassan II laid claim on several territories, successfully ( re ) acquiring the Tarfaya Strip, after the Ifni War with Spain, and much of the territory around Ceuta and Melilla, as well as the acquisition of much of Spanish Sahara after Spain handed the territory to Morocco and Mauritania ( see the Madrid Accords, it is still currently under dispute with the Polisario front who claim it as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

Melilla and II
Jews, who had lived in Melilla for centuries, have been leaving the Spanish North African city in more recent years ( from 20 % of the population before World War II to less than 5 % today ).

Melilla and requested
The government of Morocco has repeatedly requested from Spain the sovereignty of Ceuta and Melilla, of Perejil Island, and of some other small areas lacking permanent population.

Melilla and de
Algeria 1 559 km, Mauritania ( de facto ) 1561 km, Spain ( Ceuta ) 6. 3 km, Spain ( Melilla ) 9. 6 km
The city layout is arranged in a wide semicircle around the beach and the Port of Melilla, on the eastern side of the peninsula of Cape Tres Forcas, at the foot of Mount Gurugú and the mouth of the Río de Oro, 1 metre above sea level.
de: Melilla
Spain is a country located in southwestern Europe, occupying most ( about 85 percent ) of the Iberian Peninsula and includes a small exclave inside France called Llívia as well as the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands in the Western Atlantic Ocean off northwest Africa, and five places of sovereignty ( plazas de soberanía ) on and off the coast of north Africa: Ceuta, Melilla, Islas Chafarinas, Peñón de Alhucemas, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera.
The most important port and harbours are Algeciras, Barcelona, Valencia and Bilbao others: Cádiz, Cartagena, Ceuta, Huelva, A Coruña, Las Palmas, Málaga, Melilla, Gijón, Palma de Mallorca, Saguntum, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Los Cristianos ( Tenerife ), Santander, Tarragona, Vigo, Motril, Almería, Seville, Castellón de la Plana, Alicante, Pasaia, Avilés, and Ferrol.
Spain has a territorial dispute with Morocco concerning the five places of sovereignty ( plazas de soberanía ) on and off the coast of Morocco-the coastal enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, which Morocco contests, as well as the islands of Peñon de Alhucemas, Peñon de Vélez de la Gomera, and Islas Chafarinas.
Spain maintains sovereignty over Ceuta, Melilla, Penon de Velez de la Gomera, Alhucemas and the Chafarinas Islands ( captured following the Christian reconquest of Spain ) based upon historical grounds, security reasons and on the basis of the UN principle of territorial integrity.
Spanish public opinion is not generally aware of the Portuguese claim on Olivenza / Olivença ( in contrast to the Spanish claim on Gibraltar or the Moroccan claims on Ceuta, Melilla and the Plazas de soberanía ).
The first, from 1628, contains eight plays ( Los favores del mundo, La industria y la suerte, Las paredes oyen, El semejante a sí mismo, La cueva de Salamanca, Mudarse por mejorarse, Todo es ventura and El desdichado en fingir ); and the second volume from 1634 consists of twelve plays ( Los empeños de un engaño, El dueño de las estrellas, La amistad castigada, La manganilla de Melilla, Ganar amigos, La verdad sospechosa, El anticristo, El tejedor de Segovia, La prueba de las promesas, Los pechos privilegiados, La crueldad por el honor and El examen de maridos ).

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