In 2002, a dozen Moroccan soldiers planted a flag on Parsley Island, a small, uninhabited outcropping off the shore near Ceuta. |
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The Committee notes that no easily accessible information was provided with regard to the status of the inhabitants of Ceuta and Melilla. |
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Migrants arriving in Morocco do not have to attempt the Mediterranean if they are able to enter the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. |
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She was deeply concerned about the situation in the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. |
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North Africa was featured in order to include the Spanish possessions Ceuta and Melilla and the Canary Islands. |
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At least 14 people lost their lives in Ceuta and Melilla between September and October 2005, trying to cross the border fences. |
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But often in the MONA, the more ugly dimensions of the issues manifest themselves, such as the recent events in Ceuta and Melilla. |
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The events of Ceuta and Melilla were followed by a large pushback operation both by air and by ground. |
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And it is adamant that it will make no deal over Ceuta and Melilla: after all, Morocco did not exist when it nabbed them in the 15th century. |
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Last week, five migrants died in a stampede at the border of Spain's other Moroccan enclave, Ceuta. |
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Both Ceuta and Melilla are now surrounded by 10-foot fences studded with guard towers and movement sensors, topped with barbed wire and halogen searchlights. |
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We were now very limited in what we could do without a tender, so we decided to go to the Spanish city of Ceuta, on the African coast, to try to buy a replacement. |
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Ceuta has been a free port until 1992 and based on a large fishing fleet, spurred an intense traffic of ships engaged on industrial product imports and exports of minerals, livestock and lumber. |
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In particular, the hunting of quails and turtle doves during the migration period is authorised by the local authorities in Ceuta year after year, contrary to the Directive. |
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The autonomous Common Customs Tariff duties for the products listed in the Annex hereto originating in Ceuta and Melilla shall be totally suspended. |
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We believe there needs to be a reversal of approach in this regard so that we never again see tragedies such as those of Lampedusa, Ceuta, Mellila or elsewhere. |
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In 1305, Granada conquered Ceuta, but lost control of the city in 1309 to the Kingdom of Fez with the assistance of the Crown of Aragon. |
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While new challenges are appearing, as shown again by the dramatic scenes in Ceuta and Melilla, I would like the ambition of new solidarity between the two shores of the Mediterranean to assert itself. |
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Following the repression of migrants in October 2005 in the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, an increasing number of irregular migrants chose the Canary Islands route via Mauritania. |
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In relation to the protection of the right asylum, an investigation was conducted by the Government Delegation in Ceuta as a consequence of the events on December 28, 2004 in Ceuta. |
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Tighter surveillance along the migration route through Ceuta and Melilla, which had long been used to reach Europe, has meant that illegal migrants have been forced to use alternative migration routes. |
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After the attack on Ceuta, the king sought papal recognition of it as a crusade. |
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Nor, though, does it help to let a few hundred or a few thousand illegals in Ceuta and Melilla into the EU in the belief that we have thereby solved the problem. |
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From sub-Saharan Africa, all routes point north, either to Libya and Egypt for those from the Horn of Africa, or Morocco with its tiny Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, and Tunisia for those from west Africa. |
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In 1415, Ceuta was conquered by the Portuguese aiming to control navigation of the African coast. |
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In addition, the Algeciras Heliport across the bay offers scheduled services to Ceuta. |
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Usually, there is no fence along the land border, but there are exceptions like the Ceuta border fence, and some places at the eastern border. |
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There is also a similar system for local border traffic permits between Spain and Morocco regarding Ceuta and Melilla. |
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There were renewed tensions in 2005 as hundreds of African migrants tried to storm the borders of the Spanish enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta. |
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The following year, Spanish King Juan Carlos I visited Ceuta and Melilla, further angering Morocco which demanded control of the enclaves. |
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A significant majority of the residents of Ceuta want the region to remain Spanish. |
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Due to its small population, Ceuta elects only one member of the Congress of Deputies, the lower house of the Spanish legislature. |
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After his return from Ceuta, Henry the navigator founded a school of navigation in Sagres, which was a place to discuss the art of navigation. |
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From 1415 to 1437 Pedro de Meneses, 1st Count of Vila Real became the first governor of Ceuta. |
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Under King John I of Portugals son, Duarte, the colony at Ceuta rapidly became a drain on the Portuguese treasury. |
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It was soon realised that without the city of Tangier, possession of Ceuta was worthless. |
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In the 1540s the Portuguese began building the Royal Walls of Ceuta as they are today including bastions, a navigable moat and a drawbridge. |
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Ceuta is dominated by Monte Anyera, a hill along its western frontier with Morocco. |
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Since 1995, Ceuta is, along with Melilla, one of the two autonomous cities of Spain. |
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Ceuta is one of two Spanish port cities on the northern shore of Africa, along with Melilla. |
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A single road border checkpoint allows for cars to travel between Morocco and Ceuta. |
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Due to its location, Ceuta is home to a mixed ethnic and religious population. |
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The University of Granada offers undergraduate programs at their campus in Ceuta. |
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As in Melilla, Ceuta is attractive to migrants who try to use it as an entry to Europe. |
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The fences are regularly stormed by migrants trying to claim asylum once they enter Ceuta. |
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The attack on Ceuta also offered the younger nobility an opportunity to win wealth and glory. |
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It was the first time a Spanish head of state had visited Ceuta in 80 years. |
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In the reign of his grandfather John I, Ceuta had been conquered from the king of Morocco, and now the new king wanted to expand the conquests. |
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Ibn Qatan invited Balj and his Syrian troops, who were at that time in Ceuta, to cross to the Iberian peninsula to fight against the Berbers. |
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The Zanata Berber Hammudids received the important districts of Ceuta and Algeciras. |
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After their loss of Cordoba, the Hammudids had occupied Algeciras and Ceuta. |
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In 1668 Spain recognized the end of the Iberian Union and in exchange Portugal ceded Ceuta to the Spanish crown. |
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There are ferries that operate between Spain and Morocco across the strait, as well as between Spain and Ceuta and Gibraltar to Tangier. |
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Henry was 21 when he and his father and brothers captured the Moorish port of Ceuta in northern Morocco. |
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Victorious Spain won a further enclave and an enlarged Ceuta in the settlement. |
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A dispute with Spain in 2002 over the tiny island of Perejil revived the issue of the sovereignty of Melilla and Ceuta. |
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During the Iberian Union 1580 to 1640, Ceuta attracted many residents of Spanish origin. |
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In 1341, he participated in an attack on Ceuta, considered a nest of Moroccan pirates who regularly attacked the coasts of Algarve. |
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The European Union and Spain have constructed barriers between Morocco and the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla to prevent illegal immigration and smuggling. |
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In 1860, a dispute over Spain's Ceuta enclave led Spain to declare war. |
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On 1 January 1668 by the Treaty of Lisbon, King Afonso VI of Portugal recognized the formal allegiance of Ceuta to Spain and formally ceded Ceuta to King Carlos II of Spain. |
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Ceuta had long been a base for Barbary pirates who raided the Portuguese coast, depopulating villages by capturing their inhabitants to be sold in the African slave market. |
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The Portuguese Cortes refused to approve the return of Ceuta in exchange for the Infante Ferdinand who remained in captivity until his death six years later. |
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Culturally, modern Ceuta is part of the Spanish region of Andalusia. |
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It was a suffragan of the Patriarchate of Lisbon until 1675 and the end of the Iberian Union, when Ceuta chose to remain linked to the king of Spain. |
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When the Portuguese, driven in good part by religious fervour, started their colonial expansion by taking Ceuta in 1415, Tangier was always a primary goal. |
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Under the Portuguese domination, there was a Bishop of Tangier who was a suffragan of the diocese of Lisbon but in 1570 the diocese was united to the diocese of Ceuta. |
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The ruins of a basilica in downtown Ceuta confirm this reality. |
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In 1415, Portugal conquered Ceuta, its first overseas colony. |
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Fuas Roupinho also made two incursions at Ceuta, in 1181 and 1182, and died during the latter of these attempts to conquer the North African city. |
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Although Ceuta proved to be a disappointment for the Portuguese, the decision was taken to hold it while exploring along the Atlantic African coast. |
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Under the leadership of the Berber general Tariq ibn Ziyad, the Muslims used Ceuta as a staging ground for an assault on Visigothic Iberian Peninsula. |
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On the morning of 21 August 1415, king John I of Portugal led his sons and their assembled forces in a surprise assault that would come to be known as the Conquest of Ceuta. |
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Ceuta Heliport is now used to connect the city to mainland Spain by air. |
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To counter the threat, the Umayyads crossed the straits to take over Ceuta in 931, and actively formed alliances with Berber confederacies such as the Zanata and the Awraba. |
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On the morning of 21 August 1415, John I of Portugal led his sons and their assembled forces in a surprise assault on Ceuta, landing on Playa San Amaro. |
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In the resulting treaty, Henry promised to deliver Ceuta back to the Marinids in return for allowing the Portuguese army to depart unmolested, which he reneged on. |
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Possession of Ceuta would indirectly lead to further Portuguese expansion. |
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