
{| border=1 align=right cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 width=300 style="margin: 0.5em 0 1em 1em; background: #ffffff; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;" |+Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla |- | bgcolor="#c6c6c6" align="center" colspan="2" | |- | Area
– Total |
1 E7 m2 square kilometre |- | Population
– Total (2003)
– Density |
69,184
3459.2/km² |- | Demonym
– English language
– Spanish language |
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''melillense'' |- | Statute of Autonomy | March 14, 1995 |- | ISO 3166-2:ES | ES-ML |- | Cortes Generales
– Spanish Congress
– Spanish Senate | valign=bottom | 1
|- | List of Presidents of Melilla | Juan José Imbroda Ortíz (Partido Popular) |- | align=center colspan=2 | [http://www.camelilla.es Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla] |} Melilla, known in Arabic language as 'مليلة, and in Tamazight languages as ''Tamlit'', is a Spain Autonomous Communities of Spain on the coast of eastern Morocco, in North Africa. Administered as part of Málaga (province) prior to the March 14, 1995 Statute of Autonomy, it was a free port before Spain joined the European Union; the principal industry is fishing. Cross-border commerce (legal or smuggled) and Spanish and European grants and wages are the other income sources. As of 1994 it had a population of 63,670. Its population consists of Christians, Muslims, Jews and a small minority of Hindus. Since independence from France and Spain, Morroco has always claimed Melilla, along with Ceuta and various small Spanish islands off the coast of Africa (Plaza de soberanía) and the Canary Islands, drawing comparisons with Spain's territorial claim to Gibraltar. The Spanish government rejects these comparisons (as do the inhabitants of the cities), on the grounds that both Ceuta and Melilla are integral parts of the Spanish state, whereas Gibraltar, a British Crown colony, is not and never has been part of the United Kingdom. There is considerable pressure by African refugees to enter Melilla, a part of the European Union. The border is secured by the Melilla border fence, a three-meter-tall double fence with watch towers, yet refugees regularly manage to cross it illegally, avoiding the attempts by Spanish police to take them back to their home countries. ISO 3166-1 reserves ''EA'' for Melilla and Ceuta. ==History== It was a Phoenician and later Punic establishment under the name of Rusadir. Later it became a part of the Roman province of Mauretania Tingitana. As centuries passed, it went through Vandal, Byzantine and Visigothic hands. Melilla was on the frontier of the Kingdom of Tlemcen and the Kingdom of Fes when the duke of Medina Sidonia commended its conquest it for Castile conquered in 1497 a few years after Spain had conquered the last Moorish kingdom of Al-Andalus. ==Architecture== Melilla sports the only Gothic arch of Africa. During the fin de siecle, Melilla enjoyed prosperity. The new bourgeois class expressed its new prestige in the architectural style en vogue in Spain, the Modernisme. The workshops inspired by Catalan architect Enrique Nieto continued in the style even after it was out of style elsewhere, making it the second concentration of Modernisme works after Barcelona. ==See also== *Ceuta *Isla Perejil ==External links== *[http://www.melilla.es Official pages] in Spanish *[http://www.melillaturismo.com/ingles/index.htm Official Turism] in English *[http://www.meliya.com Melilla en Internet Journal] in Spanish *[http://www.melillamonumental.org Monuments of Melilla Official] in Spanish *[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2131636.stm Spain's North African enclaves] *[http://manila.djh.dk/borders/stories/storyReader$147 A Childhood Lost in the Cracks of Europe's Border] Exclaves Autonomous communities of Spain Cities in Spain Mediterranean Special territories of the EU zh-min-nan:Melilla
The map sucks. Where is Melilla? User:AxelBoldt 13:30, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC) ==Category== I have substituted the :Category:Cities in Morocco with :Category:Morocco. Melilla is not in the state of Morocco. It is however an important topic for Morocco. --User:Error 04:15, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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{| border=1 align=right cellpadding=4 cellspacing=0 width=300 style="margin: 0.5em 0 1em 1em; background: #ffffff; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;" |+Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla |- | bgcolor="#c6c6c6" align="center" colspan="2" | |- | Area
– Total |
1 E7 m2 square kilometre |- | Population
– Total (2003)
– Density |
69,184
3459.2/km² |- | Demonym
– English language
– Spanish language |
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''melillense'' |- | Statute of Autonomy | March 14, 1995 |- | ISO 3166-2:ES | ES-ML |- | Cortes Generales
– Spanish Congress
– Spanish Senate | valign=bottom | 1
|- | List of Presidents of Melilla | Juan José Imbroda Ortíz (Partido Popular) |- | align=center colspan=2 | [http://www.camelilla.es Ciudad Autónoma de Melilla] |} Melilla, known in Arabic language as 'مليلة, and in Tamazight languages as ''Tamlit'', is a Spain Autonomous Communities of Spain on the coast of eastern Morocco, in North Africa. Administered as part of Málaga (province) prior to the March 14, 1995 Statute of Autonomy, it was a free port before Spain joined the European Union; the principal industry is fishing. Cross-border commerce (legal or smuggled) and Spanish and European grants and wages are the other income sources. As of 1994 it had a population of 63,670. Its population consists of Christians, Muslims, Jews and a small minority of Hindus. Since independence from France and Spain, Morroco has always claimed Melilla, along with Ceuta and various small Spanish islands off the coast of Africa (Plaza de soberanía) and the Canary Islands, drawing comparisons with Spain's territorial claim to Gibraltar. The Spanish government rejects these comparisons (as do the inhabitants of the cities), on the grounds that both Ceuta and Melilla are integral parts of the Spanish state, whereas Gibraltar, a British Crown colony, is not and never has been part of the United Kingdom. There is considerable pressure by African refugees to enter Melilla, a part of the European Union. The border is secured by the Melilla border fence, a three-meter-tall double fence with watch towers, yet refugees regularly manage to cross it illegally, avoiding the attempts by Spanish police to take them back to their home countries. ISO 3166-1 reserves ''EA'' for Melilla and Ceuta. ==History== It was a Phoenician and later Punic establishment under the name of Rusadir. Later it became a part of the Roman province of Mauretania Tingitana. As centuries passed, it went through Vandal, Byzantine and Visigothic hands. Melilla was on the frontier of the Kingdom of Tlemcen and the Kingdom of Fes when the duke of Medina Sidonia commended its conquest it for Castile conquered in 1497 a few years after Spain had conquered the last Moorish kingdom of Al-Andalus. ==Architecture== Melilla sports the only Gothic arch of Africa. During the fin de siecle, Melilla enjoyed prosperity. The new bourgeois class expressed its new prestige in the architectural style en vogue in Spain, the Modernisme. The workshops inspired by Catalan architect Enrique Nieto continued in the style even after it was out of style elsewhere, making it the second concentration of Modernisme works after Barcelona. ==See also== *Ceuta *Isla Perejil ==External links== *[http://www.melilla.es Official pages] in Spanish *[http://www.melillaturismo.com/ingles/index.htm Official Turism] in English *[http://www.meliya.com Melilla en Internet Journal] in Spanish *[http://www.melillamonumental.org Monuments of Melilla Official] in Spanish *[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2131636.stm Spain's North African enclaves] *[http://manila.djh.dk/borders/stories/storyReader$147 A Childhood Lost in the Cracks of Europe's Border] Exclaves Autonomous communities of Spain Cities in Spain Mediterranean Special territories of the EU zh-min-nan:Melilla
Melilla
The map sucks. Where is Melilla? User:AxelBoldt 13:30, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC) ==Category== I have substituted the :Category:Cities in Morocco with :Category:Morocco. Melilla is not in the state of Morocco. It is however an important topic for Morocco. --User:Error 04:15, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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