Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera
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Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, also known as Hajar Badis, is a Spanish tied island, exclave and former rocky tidal island in the western Mediterranean Sea. It is connected to the Moroccan shore by a san
Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, seen from the Moroccan coast in 2007.
1692 engraving of the Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera, by Lucas Vostermans of Antwerp
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Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land
Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera
…بديس, romanized: Hajar Badis), is a Spanish tied island, exclave and former rocky tidal island in the western Mediterranean Sea. It is connected to the Moroccan shore by a sandy isthmus and to a smaller islet to the east, La Isleta, by a rocky isthmus. The tidal island was historically named Hajar Badis (Rock…
Roman ruins of the city of Volubilis, which once served as the capital of Mauretania and the Idrisids
Idrisid coin in Fes, 840
al-Qarawiyyin, founded in Fes in the 9th century, was a major spiritual, literary, and intellectual centre.
The corpse of King Sebastian of Portugal being presented before Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur after the Battle of Alcácer Quibir, which marked the end of Portugal's ruling Aviz dynasty