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The main area of Portuguese expansion, at this time, was the coast of Morocco, where there was grain, cattle, sugar, and textiles, as well as fish, hides, wax, and honey. [12] Ceuta had to endure alone for 43 years, until the position of the city was consolidated with the taking of Ksar es-Seghir (1458), Arzila and Tangier (1471).
Whatever its original objectives, the capture of Ceuta had profited the Portuguese little. [4] The Moroccans had cut off all of Ceuta's trade and supplies from the landward side. Ceuta became little more than a large, empty, windswept fortress-city, with an expensive Portuguese garrison that had to be continually re-supplied from across the sea.
The sieges of Ceuta, also known as the thirty-year siege, [1] were a series of blockades by Moroccan forces of the Spanish-held city of Ceuta on the North African coast. The first siege began on 23 October 1694 and finished in 1720 when reinforcements arrived. [ 2 ]
Moroccan–Portuguese conflicts refer to a series of battles between Morocco and Portugal throughout history including Battle of Tangier, Fall of Agadir and other battles and sieges in the Moroccan coast. The first military conflict, in 21 August 1415, took the form of a surprise assault on Ceuta by 45,000 Portuguese soldiers who traveled on ...
Battle of Ceuta may refer to: Battle of Ceuta (1309) , a battle between Aragon and Granada in Ceuta in 1309 Portuguese conquest of Ceuta , the Portuguese capture of Ceuta from Morocco in 1415
The degradation of two powerful, independent Muslim women — one historical, one fictional — echoes 500 years later in the name of our state.
The whale shark was encountered six miles off the coast of Port Aransas. Though they are the largest of the sharks — and the largest of all fish — whale sharks are gentle giants, experts say.
The fish can grow to more than 30 feet long, and have large eyes and "foreboding" red spines in a crown-like cluster. Typically, these fish are deep-sea dwellers and thrive in waters that are the ...