Cazaza
Sign in to savethumb|right|250px|Tomb of Sidi Mesaud and the hill of Cazaza. Cazaza was a Spanish enclave on the western coast of Cape Three Forks, in what is today Morocco, around 18 km from Melilla. It was here that the exiled Boabdil, last Emir of Granada, landed when he left the Iberian Peninsula in 1492.
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- abandoned village
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- Morocco
- Located in
- Nador
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- Cazaza
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- Cape Three Forks
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thumb|right|250px|Tomb of Sidi Mesaud and the hill of Cazaza. Cazaza was a Spanish enclave on the western coast of Cape Three Forks, in what is today Morocco, around 18 km from Melilla. It was here that the exiled Boabdil, last Emir of Granada, landed when he left the Iberian Peninsula in 1492.
In 1505 Spanish forces based in Melilla led by Juan Alfonso Pérez de Guzmán, 3rd Duke of Medina Sidonia took Cazaza from the Wattasid Kingdom of Fez. King Ferdinand granted him the title 'Marquess of Cazaza', which survives to this day. Although the noble title has endured, the Spanish lost control of Cazaza in 1533 because of the treachery of five of its garrison who betrayed it.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cazaza” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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