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Ceuta is known officially in Spanish as Ciudad Autónoma de Ceuta (English: Autonomous City of Ceuta), with a rank between a standard municipality and an autonomous community. Ceuta is part of the territory of the European Union. The city was a free port before Spain joined the European Union in 1986.
The current and 4th Mayor-President of Ceuta is Juan Jesús Vivas of the People's Party, who has held the office since 8 February 2001. Prior to June 1995, when the enclave's Statute of Autonomy was passed, the city was part of Province of Cádiz , although the position of mayor already existed.
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Ceuta had been a naval base since Carthaginian and Roman times, and had some form of fortification since at least the 5th century. [2] The city was captured by the Portuguese during the Conquest of Ceuta in 1415, who began to strengthen the defences in the 1540s by building the Royal Walls including bastions, a navigable moat and a drawbridge.
The Portuguese conquest of Ceuta took place on 21 August 1415, between Portuguese forces under the command of King John I of Portugal and the Marinid sultanate of Morocco at the city of Ceuta. The city's defenses fell under Portuguese control after a carefully prepared attack, and the successful capture of the city marked the beginning of the ...
The Assembly of Ceuta is the top-tier administrative and governing body of the autonomous city of Ceuta. [1] Voting for the Assembly is on the basis of universal suffrage, which comprises all nationals over eighteen, registered and residing in the municipality of Ceuta and in full enjoyment of their political rights, as well as resident non-national European citizens and those whose country of ...
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The Statute of Autonomy of Ceuta (Spanish: Estatuto de Autonomía de Ceuta) is the basic institutional norm of the autonomous city of Ceuta.It was approved by the Cortes Generales through Organic Law 1/1995 of March 13, published in the Boletín Oficial del Estado the following day.