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Tanger-Med port begins operating near city. [19] Tangier Ibn Battouta Airport new terminal building opens. 2011 Grand Stade de Tanger (stadium) opens. Kenitra–Tangier high-speed rail line construction begins. 2014 - Population: 998,972 (estimate). [20] 2015 – City becomes part of the Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima administrative region.
The alternative timeline of Álvares will be summarized later.) According to Pina, the Portuguese spent about a week raising a fortified siege camp on a hill west of Tangier. In a decision that later proved fateful, Henry ordered that the palisade protecting the Portuguese siege camp encircle the camp completely.
Killed in action in the Battle of Tangier. 4 May 1664 to 1664: Sir Tobias Bridge, Acting Governor 1664 to April 1665: John Fitzgerald, Governor April 1665 to 1666: John, Baron Belasyse, Governor 1666 to 1669: Sir Henry Norwood, Governor 1669 to 1670: John Middleton, Earl of Middleton, Governor 1st Term. 1670 to 1672: Sir Hugh Chomondeley ...
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 ...
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]
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Following Teviot's death, the position of governor and command over the Tangier Garrison devolved to his Irish subordinate, John Fitzgerald. Moroccan pressure on Tangier weakened due to political developments occurring elsewhere in Morocco, and Fitzgerald signed several ceasefire treaties with hostile Moroccan parties, which by 1666 had led to ...
Tangier (/ t æ n ˈ dʒ ɪər / tan-JEER; Arabic: طنجة, romanized: Ṭanjah, , ) is a city in northwestern Morocco, on the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The city is the capital of the Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region, as well as the Tangier-Assilah Prefecture of Morocco.