Tetouan is an Arab city, nicknamed the white dove, and the reason is the presence of a huge statue and a beautiful white dove in to the city center. Andalusian character of old neighborhoods, located in the large rural area and in the agricultural area on the Mediterranean coast, between the heights of Mount Bunting and a series of the Rif Mountains. Tetouan characterized by their ability to maintain the Andalusian civilization which, with constant adaptation to the cultural tributaries provided to it, enriched and characterized its history.
Date of Tetouan Thumper in the foot in the west of the current position of the city and found a Roman city called Tamoudah. They found fossils and traces of the city Tamuda dating back to the third century BC. Tamuda around the year 40 destroyed the wake of the events of Aedemon revolution. And held a Roman fort still Bracelet phenomenon to now. The Tetouan name is the name of an existing references since by atheist century. In the early fourteenth century, specifically in 1307, the city was rebuilt fortified citadel is said that the aim was to build on them to liberate the city of Ceuta. In the midst of those wars, the Spanish King Henry III destroyed the city most recently in 1399.
It begins the modern history of the city since the late fifteenth century, at the fall of Granada in 1492 by the Catholic kings Ferdinand and Isabel which built since that Granada Almandari Sidi Ali, a name has become a symbol for the city of Tetouan lieutenant. Thousands of Muslims as well as Jews came from Andalusia to settle in the north of Morocco in general and on the ruins of the city of Tetouan, so this city has know a prosperous stage of reconstruction and growth in various fields became a reception center for the Andalusian civilization.
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