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Tangier (Arabic طنچة Tandja), is a city of northern Morocco
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History it relies on Greek mythology, the city of Tangier was founded by the giant Antaeus, son of Poseidon and Gaia, and its name to Tingo (or Tinga!), wife of the founder. Antaeus was his strength in contact with the earth, Hercules strangled him in the air now. The tomb of Antaeus is a hill near Tangier, Charf. Its unique geographical position and strategic, was long a place of Tangier lust where several successive civilizations and cultures.
After a Phoenician presence, which remain two small cemeteries, the city was actually founded in the fourth century BC by the Carthaginians, who made a counter (Ting). In 146 BC the fall of Carthage, the city is attached to the Mauretania and became a Roman colony (Tingis) related to the province of Spain. Tangier is so important, it becomes, to the third century, the capital of Mauritania Tingitana. In the fifth century, Tangier was occupied by the Vandals. Released during the reign of Justinian, in the early sixth century, it was attached to the Byzantine Empire.
General Moussa Ibn Noussair Umayyad interest in Tangier for its strategic position and it is there that 711, will begin the conquest of Spain by the troops of Tarik Ibn Ziad, who Gibraltar, among others, Its name (Jebel Tarik the mountain of Tarik). During the five centuries after the dynasties of Morocco, Arabs from Egypt, Tunisia and Spain dispute the sovereignty of Tangier. Idrissids the masters of Volubilis, the Umayyads of Spain, are competing on it for over a century. In the middle of the tenth century, the Fatimids of Tunisia to extend their authority. In 1075, the Almoravids become masters until 1149 when the city passed the Almohads. It enfeoffing himself to Hafsids Tunis before becoming Merinid in 1274.
After three attempts and three failures, the Portuguese seize it in 1471 and occupied it for a century after which the Spaniards seize it, to lose it soon in favor of Portugal, before being ceded to Britain in 1661 as a dowry given by Catherine of Braganza to her husband Charles II of England. Moulay Ismail in 1679 (Empire Cherifien Alawites) laid siege to Tangier, which it abandoned in 1684, Charles II decided by considering its occupation by British troops unnecessary and too costly.
Following the assistance provided by the sultan Abderrahman the Algerian emir Abd El-Kader, the French launched Tangier on a reprisal raid led by Prince de Joinville, who bombed the city in 1844 and dismantle the fortifications.
The European rivalries for control of the city, door ajar on Morocco, starting in the late nineteenth century. France, Spain, United Kingdom, Germany multiply diplomatic and trade missions to place their pawns putting the city at the center of international rivalries. In 1880, the Madrid Convention attempts to define the relationships between major powers over Morocco. Driven by the Chancellor Bulow who hears recall case, sensational, that Germany will not allow itself to shelve and that France can not change the political status of Morocco without the authorization of a new Conference International, William He arrived March 31, 1905 the imperial yacht Hohenzollern in Tangier for several hours and denounced following a meeting with the Sultan's uncle, described the French and English on Morocco, causing a diplomatic crisis. In 1906, the Algeciras Conference redefines the positions of each in Africa, recognizing the independence of the sultan and affirming the equality of the signatories in the economic field. In 1923 negotiations led to make an international zone. On 24 July 1925, the final status of Tangier is signed by the United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium, Holland, the United States, Portugal, EU Soviet and France, which Italy would join later.
The city now has its financial autonomy. It adopts the international administration, particularly of a legislative assembly, composed of thirty international officials appointed by their respective consuls and nine Moroccans.
In June 1940, after the French defeat, the English Nationalist troops occupied Tangier and allow, in March 1941, the installation of the German consulate in Mendoubia (Mendoub residence) where the Nazi flag fleet. In March 1944, Spain is from the German consulate Mendoubia before removing, October 9 1945, its troops from Tangier to regain its international status.
The April 10, 1947, Sultan Mohammed V, accompanied by Crown Prince Moulay Hassan (the future Hassan II), delivers the first speech in Tangier, which refers to a unified and independent Morocco attached to the Arab nation. In 1956, with the independence of Morocco, the conference Fedala (October 8 to 29) makes Tangier in Morocco. A royal charter maintains the freedom of exchange and trade until 1960, when the Moroccan government abolished the tax benefits and Tangier is left with a status similar to that of other cities of the kingdom. To avoid leakages of capital, The port of Tangier has a free trade zone.
Tangier is backed by the foothills of the Rif and is located in one of the many bays in the Strait of Gibraltar in the north of Africa, facing the edge of Europe, it is the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea in a bay between Cape and Cape Spartel Malabata.
renowned seaside resort, and fifth largest city in Morocco after Casablanca, Rabat, Fez, Marrakech, Meknes and Tangier's population approaches 650 000 inhabitants.
Medina
The Wilaya of Tangier has an area of 1195 square kilometers, of which 863.3 km ² Prefecture Tangier-Asilah and 331.70 km ² for the Prefecture of Fahs-Beni Makada, created in April 1997.
Economy
Second industrial center after Casablanca, the industry is diversified: textile, chemical, mechanical, metallurgical and naval. The city currently has four industrial zones both have a free zone status (FreeZone the Tangier Free Zone and port). The infrastructure of the city of the strait is important: a port manager, the flow of goods and passengers (more than one million passengers per year) including a marina and fishing port.
The railway station Railway connects the city with Rabat, Casablanca and Marrakech in the south and with Fez and Oujda to the east. The highway has been operational since the summer of 2005 and connects Tangier to Fès via Rabat (250 km) and Settat via Casablanca (330 km). The international airport is IBN BATTOUTA 15 km southwest of downtown.
important seaside resort in Tangier has various tourism and hotel infrastructure, defining a bay in the downtown east side and stretches over 7 km, and a medina (old city) which is developing a business crafts (leather goods, wooden articles and silver, traditional clothing and shoes ...).
The city of Tangier is becoming a hub of commercial maritime traffic with the construction of the Tangier Med port, which aims to facilitate maritime commerce. The city is experiencing an exodus galloping other cities and regions of Morocco, which has quadrupled its population in two decades (1 million inhabitants today against 250 000 in 1982) and allows the emergence of semiconductor devices poor neighborhoods south of the city where infrastructure is lacking.
The years 2007-2008 will be special for the city of the Strait because of the completion of major projects under construction, in this case the second port Tanger-Med and its industrial areas, a stadium of 45,000 seats, a business center, tourism facilities, development of the city center and the construction of new lines motorway and railway.
Agriculture in the region of Tangier is tertiary and mainly cereal.
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Tangier (Arabic طنچة Tandja), is a city of northern Morocco
If
History it relies on Greek mythology, the city of Tangier was founded by the giant Antaeus, son of Poseidon and Gaia, and its name to Tingo (or Tinga!), wife of the founder. Antaeus was his strength in contact with the earth, Hercules strangled him in the air now. The tomb of Antaeus is a hill near Tangier, Charf. Its unique geographical position and strategic, was long a place of Tangier lust where several successive civilizations and cultures.
After a Phoenician presence, which remain two small cemeteries, the city was actually founded in the fourth century BC by the Carthaginians, who made a counter (Ting). In 146 BC the fall of Carthage, the city is attached to the Mauretania and became a Roman colony (Tingis) related to the province of Spain. Tangier is so important, it becomes, to the third century, the capital of Mauritania Tingitana. In the fifth century, Tangier was occupied by the Vandals. Released during the reign of Justinian, in the early sixth century, it was attached to the Byzantine Empire.
General Moussa Ibn Noussair Umayyad interest in Tangier for its strategic position and it is there that 711, will begin the conquest of Spain by the troops of Tarik Ibn Ziad, who Gibraltar, among others, Its name (Jebel Tarik the mountain of Tarik). During the five centuries after the dynasties of Morocco, Arabs from Egypt, Tunisia and Spain dispute the sovereignty of Tangier. Idrissids the masters of Volubilis, the Umayyads of Spain, are competing on it for over a century. In the middle of the tenth century, the Fatimids of Tunisia to extend their authority. In 1075, the Almoravids become masters until 1149 when the city passed the Almohads. It enfeoffing himself to Hafsids Tunis before becoming Merinid in 1274.
After three attempts and three failures, the Portuguese seize it in 1471 and occupied it for a century after which the Spaniards seize it, to lose it soon in favor of Portugal, before being ceded to Britain in 1661 as a dowry given by Catherine of Braganza to her husband Charles II of England. Moulay Ismail in 1679 (Empire Cherifien Alawites) laid siege to Tangier, which it abandoned in 1684, Charles II decided by considering its occupation by British troops unnecessary and too costly.
Following the assistance provided by the sultan Abderrahman the Algerian emir Abd El-Kader, the French launched Tangier on a reprisal raid led by Prince de Joinville, who bombed the city in 1844 and dismantle the fortifications.
The European rivalries for control of the city, door ajar on Morocco, starting in the late nineteenth century. France, Spain, United Kingdom, Germany multiply diplomatic and trade missions to place their pawns putting the city at the center of international rivalries. In 1880, the Madrid Convention attempts to define the relationships between major powers over Morocco. Driven by the Chancellor Bulow who hears recall case, sensational, that Germany will not allow itself to shelve and that France can not change the political status of Morocco without the authorization of a new Conference International, William He arrived March 31, 1905 the imperial yacht Hohenzollern in Tangier for several hours and denounced following a meeting with the Sultan's uncle, described the French and English on Morocco, causing a diplomatic crisis. In 1906, the Algeciras Conference redefines the positions of each in Africa, recognizing the independence of the sultan and affirming the equality of the signatories in the economic field. In 1923 negotiations led to make an international zone. On 24 July 1925, the final status of Tangier is signed by the United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium, Holland, the United States, Portugal, EU Soviet and France, which Italy would join later.
The city now has its financial autonomy. It adopts the international administration, particularly of a legislative assembly, composed of thirty international officials appointed by their respective consuls and nine Moroccans.
In June 1940, after the French defeat, the English Nationalist troops occupied Tangier and allow, in March 1941, the installation of the German consulate in Mendoubia (Mendoub residence) where the Nazi flag fleet. In March 1944, Spain is from the German consulate Mendoubia before removing, October 9 1945, its troops from Tangier to regain its international status.
The April 10, 1947, Sultan Mohammed V, accompanied by Crown Prince Moulay Hassan (the future Hassan II), delivers the first speech in Tangier, which refers to a unified and independent Morocco attached to the Arab nation. In 1956, with the independence of Morocco, the conference Fedala (October 8 to 29) makes Tangier in Morocco. A royal charter maintains the freedom of exchange and trade until 1960, when the Moroccan government abolished the tax benefits and Tangier is left with a status similar to that of other cities of the kingdom. To avoid leakages of capital, The port of Tangier has a free trade zone.
Tangier is backed by the foothills of the Rif and is located in one of the many bays in the Strait of Gibraltar in the north of Africa, facing the edge of Europe, it is the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea in a bay between Cape and Cape Spartel Malabata.
renowned seaside resort, and fifth largest city in Morocco after Casablanca, Rabat, Fez, Marrakech, Meknes and Tangier's population approaches 650 000 inhabitants.
Medina
The Wilaya of Tangier has an area of 1195 square kilometers, of which 863.3 km ² Prefecture Tangier-Asilah and 331.70 km ² for the Prefecture of Fahs-Beni Makada, created in April 1997.
Economy
Second industrial center after Casablanca, the industry is diversified: textile, chemical, mechanical, metallurgical and naval. The city currently has four industrial zones both have a free zone status (FreeZone the Tangier Free Zone and port). The infrastructure of the city of the strait is important: a port manager, the flow of goods and passengers (more than one million passengers per year) including a marina and fishing port.
The railway station Railway connects the city with Rabat, Casablanca and Marrakech in the south and with Fez and Oujda to the east. The highway has been operational since the summer of 2005 and connects Tangier to Fès via Rabat (250 km) and Settat via Casablanca (330 km). The international airport is IBN BATTOUTA 15 km southwest of downtown.
important seaside resort in Tangier has various tourism and hotel infrastructure, defining a bay in the downtown east side and stretches over 7 km, and a medina (old city) which is developing a business crafts (leather goods, wooden articles and silver, traditional clothing and shoes ...).
The city of Tangier is becoming a hub of commercial maritime traffic with the construction of the Tangier Med port, which aims to facilitate maritime commerce. The city is experiencing an exodus galloping other cities and regions of Morocco, which has quadrupled its population in two decades (1 million inhabitants today against 250 000 in 1982) and allows the emergence of semiconductor devices poor neighborhoods south of the city where infrastructure is lacking.
The years 2007-2008 will be special for the city of the Strait because of the completion of major projects under construction, in this case the second port Tanger-Med and its industrial areas, a stadium of 45,000 seats, a business center, tourism facilities, development of the city center and the construction of new lines motorway and railway.
Agriculture in the region of Tangier is tertiary and mainly cereal.
Small taxis are blue with a yellow bar
