Tangier is a city in northwestern Morocco. It is on the Maghreb coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar. The nicknames ‘Bride of the North’ and ‘Door of Africa’ reference its position in far northwestern Africa near the Strait Of Gibraltar.
About Tangier in brief
Tangier is a city in northwestern Morocco. It is on the Maghreb coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel. The Carthaginians developed it as an important port of their empire by the 5th century BC. It was probably involved with the expeditions of Hanno the Navigator along the West African coast. In 1923, it was considered as having international status by foreign colonial powers and became a destination for many European and American diplomats, spies, writers and businessmen. The city is currently undergoing rapid development and modernisation. Projects include new tourism projects along the bay, a modern business district called Tangier City Centre, a new airport terminal, and a new football stadium. Tangier was formally known as Colonia Julia Tingi following its domination by colony status during the Roman Empire. The Arabic and modern Berber name of the town is Ṭanja. It is also sometimes known as Boughaz. The nicknames ‘Bride of the North’ and ‘Door of Africa’ reference its position in far northwestern Africa near the Strait Of Gibraltar. The town is the capital of the Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region, as well as the Tangier-Assilah prefecture of Morocco. It was founded as a Phoenician colony, possibly as early as the 10th century BC and almost certainly by the 8th centuryBC.
The majority of Berber tombs around Tangier had Punic jewelry by the 6th century BC, speaking to abundant trade by that time. Tingis came under the control of the Roman ally Mauretania during the Punic Wars. Under Augustus Tingitana, it became the provincial capital and seat of Diocletian’s Counts. It remained the largest settlement in its province in the 4th century and remained the scene of the martyrdom of Saints Atcellus and Cassian in 298. It became a Roman free city in 38th BC and became the seat of a Roman count in 291. In the same time, the province shrank to little more than the ports and ports along the coast, owing to the Great Persecution, and the empress of Boniface, who was feared with the beheading of Saints Cassus and Marcellus, was executed by beheading. In 298, the city became a seat of the Counts of Titana’s Counts, and it was greatly developed by Counts Marcellus and Cassus. In 4th century BC, the town was the scene of the martyrs of Atcellus Cassus, who had been beheaded by the Beheading of Cassus Cassian and Beheaded by the Saints Cassus in 298. The city was also the scene of the Great Persecution of Saints Mar cellus Cassian, who beheaded him and was beheaded.
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