Melilla
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Melilla is an autonomous city of Spain on the North African coast. It lies on the eastern side of the Cape Three Forks, on the Morocco–Spain border, adjacent to the Moroccan port town of Beni Ansar, a
Aterrizando en Melilla
Puerta de la Marina, Melilla
EDIFICIO DEL ANTIGÜA REDACCIÓN EL TELEGRAMA DEL RIF
Jewish woman in the Jewish quarter (1909)
Plazas de soberanía
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The plazas de soberanía, meaning "strongholds of sovereignty", are a series of Spanish territories scattered along the Mediterranean coast bordering Morocco, closer to Africa than to Europe. This term
Melilla
…numbers of Sephardic Jews and Sindhi Hindus. Melilla features a diglossia between the official Spanish and Tarifit. Like the autonomous city of Ceuta and Spain's other territories along the northern African coast, Melilla is subject to an irredentist claim by Morocco…
Aerial view of the Peñón de Alhucemas c. 1925
Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, seen from the Moroccan coast, 2007. Its border with Morocco is 85 m (279 ft) long, making it the shortest international land border segment in the world.