Tuesday, 17 November 2009

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

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    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.