Al-Andalus

Sabta سبتة

Today: Ceuta, Spain

Years
710–1415

Sabta, on the African shore of the Strait, was the gate through which armies and trade passed between al-Andalus and the Maghrib, held in turn by the Caliphate, the Almoravids, the Almohads and the Marinids. The Portuguese took it in 1415.

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