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1437 – Battle of Tangier, attempt by a Portuguese expeditionary force to seize the citadel of Tangier, and their subsequent defeat by the armies of the Marinid sultanate . 1471 – Portuguese of Tangier rule (1471–1661) begins, under Afonso V of Portugal. [3] [4] [2] 1580 - Spain in power. [4] 1656 - Portugal in power again. [4]
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 ...
Truman Capote – American novelist and writer, who visited Tangier; João de Castro – Portuguese naval officer and fourth viceroy of the Portuguese Indies; Ira Cohen – American poet, publisher, photographer and filmmaker; published one issue of a magazine called Gnaoua; Eugène Delacroix – French Romantic painter; Jim Ede – English art ...
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]
Tangier (yellow) and the International Zone, 1953.Merchant flag of the Tangier International Zone. This is a list of Administrators (with executive authority over the territory and its European populations) and Mendoubs (representatives of the Sultan of Morocco, with authority over the Muslim and Jewish communities) of the Tangier International Zone.
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The Tangier International Zone (Arabic: منطقة طنجة الدولية Minṭaqat Ṭanja ad-Dawliyya; French: Zone internationale de Tanger; Spanish: Zona Internacional de Tánger) was a 382 km 2 (147 sq mi) international zone centered on the city of Tangier, Morocco, which existed from 1925 until its reintegration into independent Morocco in 1956, with interruption during the Spanish ...
Tangier was under the command of the Marinid governor Salah ibn Salah (called Çallabençalla by the Portuguese chronicles), the same man who had been governor of Ceuta back in 1415, now probably quite advanced in years, and probably eager for revenge. [46] (Salah ibn Salah was a Marinid vassal whose original dominions ranged along the northern ...