Tuesday, 20 October 2009

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  • Located in northern Morocco about forty miles from Tangier Asilah was originally a Carthaginian cit

     

     

    Asilah
    Located in northern Morocco   about forty miles from Tangier Asilah was originally a Carthaginian city  then Roman. In 1471  it underwent a major invasion  which marked its history nearly 500 ships and 30,000 Portuguese soldiers venirent conquer,  for it finally to become their strategic trading post and important. Asilah was built in XV century by the Portuguese, then fell to the Spaniards, until its liberation in 1589 by Sultan Ahmed El Mansour Saâdiens. Later, the Spaniards had taken possession again, and it was this time released by Moulay Ismail in 1691.  Its bombing by the Austrian army in 1829 led to the installation and implementation of a Spanish protectorate until 1956.
    Tanger                                                                    Dove resting on the shoulder of Africa, Tangier has long been coveted for its strategic position. Since the founding of Tingis the fourth century BC, Carthaginians, Romans, Phoenicians, Vandals, Spaniards, Portuguese and English will be the disputed jealously. No African city that is closest to Europe, no East, which is most dear to the hearts of Artisitique European and American painters, musicians or writers. Delacroix, Saint-Saens, Pierre Loti, Matisse, Van Dongen, Tenessee Williams, Paul Morand, Jean Genet, Joseph Kessel, William Burroughs and Paul Bowles, to name a few, have lived in Tangier.

  
  

   

   

  
  

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