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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Tangier, Morocco This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Tangier has been reputed as a safe house for international spying activities. [107] Its position during the Cold War and during other spying periods of the 19th and 20th centuries is legendary. Tangier acquired the reputation of a spying and smuggling centre and attracted foreign capital due to political neutrality and commercial liberty at ...
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William Bayer – American crime fiction writer, author of the novel Tangier; Bill Bird – American journalist and the founder of Tangier Gazette; Jane Bowles – American writer; wife of Paul Bowles; Paul Bowles – American writer and composer; lived in Tangier for 52 years and died there; Claudio Bravo – painter
Leonardo de Ferrari's plan of the Portuguese fortifications at Tangier, c. 1655. The Wattasids assaulted Tangier in 1508, 1511, and 1515 but without success. In 1508, future Portuguese of India Duarte de Menezes succeeded his father as captain of Tangier, a function he had already been effectively performing in his father's name since 1507. [9]
Tenure Incumbent Notes 28 August 1471 to 1484? Rodrigo Afonso de Melo, 1st Count of Olivença, Governor : Took possession following the Conquest of Asilah.: 1484? to 1486 ...
The First Moroccan Crisis or the Tangier Crisis was an international crisis between March 31, 1905, and April 7, 1906, over the status of Morocco. [1] Germany wanted to challenge France 's growing control over Morocco, aggravating France and Great Britain.