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Tangier was founded as a Phoenician colony, possibly as early as the 10th century BCE [10] [11] and almost certainly by the 8th century BCE. [12] The majority of Berber tombs around Tangier had Punic jewelry by the 6th century BCE, speaking to abundant trade by that time. [ 13 ]
English Tangier was the period in Moroccan history in which the city of Tangier was occupied by England as part of its colonial empire from 1661 to 1684. Tangier had been under Portuguese control before Charles II of England acquired the city as part of the dowry when he married the Portuguese infanta Catherine .
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]
The former Mendoub's Residence in Tangier. The Mendoub's Residence or Dar al-Mandub (Arabic: قصر مندوب, French: Palais du Mendoub), formerly known as the Forbes Museum of Tangier, is a cultural monument and 10-acre (40,000 m 2) property located on Mohammed Tazi Street in the Marshan neighborhood of Tangier, Morocco.
Wealthier homes had reception rooms at ground level, opening off the patio, which were equally if not even more richly decorated, sometimes with elaborate wooden cupola ceilings. This style was in turn found in other cities in the region of the Moroccan north such as Ouazzane , Taza , and Moulay Idriss Zerhoun , though often in less lavish form.
It also had small concessions in Guatemala (1843–1854) and Belgian concession of Tianjin in China (1902–1931) and was a co-administrator of the Tangier International Zone in Morocco. Roughly 98% of Belgium's overseas territory was just one colony (about 76 times larger than Belgium itself) – known as the Belgian Congo.
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It is not known exactly at what period there may have been an episcopal see at Tangier in ancient times, but in the late Middle Ages Tangier was a titular see (i.e., an honorific fiction for the appointment of curial and auxiliary bishops). For the historical reasons given above, one official list of the Roman Curia places the see in Mauretania ...