Glick has suggested that Ṭārif is an invention designed to explain the etymology of Tarifa, the ancient Julia Traducta, of which " Julian " was probably the ( unnamed ) Gothic count ( comes julianus ).

Tarifa is the most important whale watching town in the Strait of Gibraltar ; this gateway to the Mediterranean Sea is also a central point in between the colder waters to the North and the tropical waters off of Africa: a good route for migrating cetaceans.

Tarifa is a small town in the province of Cádiz, Andalusia, on the southernmost coast of Spain.

The name " Tarifa " itself is derived from the name of the Berber warrior, Tarif ibn Malik.

The coast of Tarifa is also popular with windsurfers and kitesurfers due to the strong winds of the straits.

For this reason Tarifa is also dotted with hundreds of wind turbines.

Tarifa is a renowned place to watch migrating birds, in particular the storks which cross the Straits of Gibraltar in spring and autumn.

Tarifa is renowned for its African film Festival, whose first edition took place in 2004.

The landfall, now known in Spain as either Punta Marroquí or Punta de Tarifa, is in fact the southern tip of an islet, presently known as Isla de Tarifa or Isla de las Palomas, just offshore of the Iberian mainland.

This testimony of the Arab chronicle, the modern name Isla de Tarifa, and the above mentioned toponymic evidence that Andaluz is a name of pre-Roman origin taken together lead to the supposition that the Island of Andalus is the present day Isla de Tarifa, which lies just offshore from the modern day Spanish city of Tarifa.

The most westerly point of the Iberian peninsula and of the European continent is Cabo da Roca, near Sintra ; the southernmost, Punta de Tarifa, in Andalusia.

Punta de Tarifa ( Point Tarifa, Point Marroqui ) is the southernmost point of the Iberian Peninsula and continental Europe.

The point is the southeastern tip of the former island, known as Isla de Tarifa or Isla de las Palomas, located offshore and connected by the mainland with a dam.

He says that this variety is grown in Sanlúcar, Xerez, Trebujena, Arcos, Espera, Moguer, Tarifa and Paxarete.

The play Más pesa el rey que la sangre, which translates into " The King weighs more than blood ( kinship )" is based on the episode of the Reconquista in which the nobleman Alonso Pérez de Guzmán allows his son to be sacrificed, rather than surrender his King's possession of Tarifa.

Jerez Airport is conveniently located for access to Gibraltar, Cadiz, Tarifa, Seville or even the Costa del Sol which is a 90 minute drive away.

Tarifa features a Mediterranean climate with Oceanic influences, with warm summers and very mild winters.

After a successful minor raid on the Spanish coast at Tarifa, and the raiding force returning with a booty they captured without any reported resistance, Musa decided to land a larger invasion force.

On 22 September the siege of Tarifa was formally established, with the help of Yusuf I.

On 10 October, a severe storm wrecked 12 Castilian galleys, and the same day the Sultan launched an all-out assault against Tarifa, which was barely repulsed with heavy losses on both sides.

The Marinid invasion force made junction with Granadan forces under Yusuf I in September, and proceeded to lay siege to Tarifa together.

The construction of this palace, which is adorned with precious azulejos tiles and well-kept gardens, was begun by Pedro Enríquez de Quiñones, Adelantado Mayor of Andalusía, and his wife Catalina de Rivera, founder of the Casa de Alcalá, and completed by Pedro's son Fadrique Enríquez de Rivera, the first Marquis of Tarifa.

Tarifa was faithfully defended until Sancho could rescue it and the Marinids retreated to Morocco.

During the Roman period, Tarifa was known as Julia Transducta ( also known as Julia Joza, or just Transducta ).

Tarifa name was given after the attack of Tarif ibn Malik in 710, a Berber military commander of Musa bin Nusayr.

The village of Bolonia near Tarifa was also populated in Roman times ( called Baelo Claudia ).

Later Tarifa was held by the taifa of Algeciras ( 1031 ) and by that of Seville ( 1057 ), and subsequently by the Almoravids.

In the course of the Peninsular War, Tarifa was besieged by French troops on 20 December 1810, and again on 18 October 1811.

The chronicle also says that " Island of al-Andalus " was subsequently renamed " Island of Tarifa ".

Turner's body washed up on the beach near Tarifa and was recovered by the Spanish authorities.

The Battle of Río Salado, also known as the Battle of Tarifa ( 30 October 1340 ) was a battle of the armies of King Afonso IV of Portugal and King Alfonso XI of Castile against those of sultan Abu al-Hasan ' Ali of Morocco and Yusuf I of Granada.

Abu Hasan's position was now a difficult one, not only because the troops besieging Tarifa depended on supplies from Morocco, but also the Kingdom of Granada needed them, their forces having launched a series of limited attacks all along the frontier to hold the Castilians at bay.

The forces hidden in Tarifa also attacked the Sultan's camp at the same time, and the troops defending it ( about 3, 000 horse and 8, 000 foot ) withdrew, half of them fleeing towards Algeciras and the other half joining the main struggle in the valley, where the Sultan's army was still largely intact.

Radio Tarifa was a Spanish World music ensemble combining Flamenco, Arab-Andalusian music, Arabian music, Moorish music and also influences of the Mediterranean, of the Middle Ages and of the Caribbean.

She was the mother of Diego López IV de Haro ( died 1289 ) and María II Díaz de Haro, Lady of Biscay, who married Prince Juan " El de Tarifa " of Castile.

To this end, they declared jihad on the Christians and successively occupied the cities of Rota, Algiers and Gibraltar, surrounding Tarifa for the first time in 1294.

On the first day of June, 1195, he landed at Tarifa.

Tarifa has become a popular spot for northern-Europeans to spend their summers.

The name of Tarifa, both for the island and for the municipality, originates from Tariq ibn Ziyad, who in 710 started here the Islamic conquest of Spain.

The Castillo Guzmán el Bueno ( Spanish ) for " The castle of Guzman the good "), also called Tarifa Castle, is a castle in the coastal town of Tarifa in Spain.

Some cantons were provincial in nature, like Valencia or Málaga, but most comprised just a city and its surroundings, like the more localised cantons of Alcoy, Cartagena, Seville, Cádiz, Almansa, Torrevieja, Castellón, Granada, Salamanca, Bailén, Andújar, Tarifa and Algeciras.