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Melilla (/ mɛˈliːjə / mel-EE-yə, Spanish: [meˈliʝa] ⓘ; Tarifit: Mřič) is an autonomous city of Spain on the North African coast. It lies on the eastern side of the Cape Three Forks, bordering Morocco and facing the Mediterranean Sea. It has an area of 12.3 km 2 (4.7 sq mi).
Ceuta (UK: / ˈsjuːtə /, US: / ˈseɪuːtə /, [ 5 ][ 6 ]Spanish: [ˈθewta, ˈsewta] ⓘ) [ a ] is an autonomous city of Spain on the North African coast. Bordered by Morocco, it lies along the boundary between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
1860–62. The Morocco–Spain land border consists of three non-contiguous lines totalling 18.5 km (11.5 miles) around the Spanish territories of Ceuta (8 km; 5 miles), Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera (75 metres; 80 yards) and Melilla (10.5 km; 6½ miles). Spanish islets such as the Chafarinas or the Alhucemas are located off the Moroccan coast.
It has an average altitude of 650 m. Its total area including Spanish island territories is 505,370 km 2 (195,124 sq mi) of which 499,542 km 2 (192,874 sq mi) is land and 5,240 km 2 (2,023 sq mi) is water. [ 2 ] It has the 30th largest Exclusive Economic Zone of 1,039,233 km 2 (401,250 sq mi). Spain lies between latitudes 27° and 44° N, and ...
Melilla Airport (IATA: MLN, ICAO: GEML) is an airport located in Melilla, an exclave of Spain in Africa. The airport is located about 4 km (2.5 mi) southwest of the city, near the border with Morocco. Between 1931 and 1967 Melilla was served by the Tauima Aerodrome (now the Nador International Airport), even when Morocco had gained its ...
Ceuta and Melilla - Spain map.png. Module:Location map/data/Spain Ceuta and Melilla is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Ceuta and Melilla. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Ceuta and Melilla. Ceuta and Melilla may refer to: Spain 's two autonomous cities, Ceuta and Melilla, which are often referred to together. In a wider sense, to all the modern Spanish possessions in North Africa (i.e. Ceuta and Melilla, plus other adjacent minor territories, known in Spanish as plazas de soberanía) Spanish Africa (disambiguation)
The First Melillan Campaign, also called the Melilla War or the Margallo War (after Juan García y Margallo, the Spanish governor of Melilla whose defeat and death infuriated the Spanish public) in Spain, was a conflict between Spain and 39 of the Rif tribes of northern Morocco, and later the Sultan of Morocco, that began in October 1893, was openly declared November 9, 1893, and was resolved ...