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During times of the Caliphate of Cordoba as well as the Emirate of Granada, Ceuta and/or Melilla belonged to Al-Andalus.. The plazas de soberanía (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈplaθas ðe soβeɾaˈni.a], meaning "strongholds of sovereignty," [3] are a series of Spanish overseas territories scattered along the Mediterranean coast bordering Morocco in Africa, or that are closer to Africa than Europe.
Spanish North Africa may refer to: Contemporary Spanish North Africa: Spain's two autonomous cities: Ceuta and Melilla, plus other minor territories (plazas de soberanía) Canary Islands; Historical Spanish North Africa (1913–1975); former Spanish colonies in Northern Africa, part of the Plazas y Provincias Africanas: Spanish Morocco; Spanish ...
Remaining Spanish Plazas de soberanía in North Africa. Spain's first Bourbon ruler Philip V wished to re-establish Spanish supremacy on the Algerian coast, and in 1732 sent an expedition which retook Oran and Mers El Kebir. The cities remained under Spanish rule until they were all but destroyed by an earthquake in 1790. [47]
Spanish colonies in Africa in 1950. Spanish Africa may refer to: Spanish North Africa (disambiguation) Contemporary Spanish North Africa, i.e. Spain's autonomous cities. Ceuta, on the north coast of Africa; Melilla, on the north coast of Africa; Plazas de soberanía, sovereign territories scattered along the Mediterranean coast bordering Morocco
Ceuta and Melilla may refer to: . Spain's two autonomous cities, Ceuta and Melilla, which are often referred to together; In a wider sense, to all the modern Spanish possessions in North Africa (i.e. Ceuta and Melilla, plus other adjacent minor territories, known in Spanish as plazas de soberanía)
The Alhucemas Islands, c. 1950s Peñón de Alhucemas, viewed from the Moroccan coast Spanish possessions in North Africa. The Alhucemas Islands (Spanish: Islas Alhucemas, Arabic: جزر الحسيمة) is a group of islands and one of the Spanish plazas de soberanía just off the Moroccan coast in the Alboran Sea.
Historically the plazas de soberanía were part of various Muslim empires of north-west Africa. [1] Ceuta was conquered by Portugal in 1415. [2] Following the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula, Spain looked south to the North African coast, capturing Melilla from the Sultanate of Fez in 1497, with Portugal's blessing. [1]
Map of Spanish cities and islands in Africa. The plazas de soberanía is the set of Spanish possessions on the north coast of Africa. Ceuta; Ceuta is an autonomous city located on the north coast of Africa, on the Strait of Gibraltar and borders Morocco.