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Médina المدينة العتيقة

Tétouan, Morocco

Médina المدينة العتيقة

Tétouan (Arabic: تطوان, Tifinagh: ⵜⵉⵟⴰⵡⵉⵏ, Spanish: Tetuán) is a city in northern Morocco. It lies along the Martil Valley and is one of the two major ports of Morocco on the Mediterranean Sea, a few miles south of the Strait of Gibraltar, and about 60 kilometres (37 mi) E.S.E. of Tangier. As of 202

4, the city has an estimated population of 469,465 inhabitants. It is part of the administrative division Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima. Over the span of more than 2,000 years, Tétouan has witnessed many development cycles. Dating back to the 3rd century BC, Tétouan’s first settlements, discovered a few miles outside of the modern city limits, belonged to the ancient Mauretanians. In the 2nd century BC, Phoenicians traded there and after them the site — known now as the ancient town of Tamuda — became a Roman city under Emperor Augustus. In the late 13th century, the Marinids built a casbah and mosque in what is now Tétouan’s old city. In 1305, the scale of the settlement was expanded by sultan Abu Thabit Amir, who fortified the place. Around the early 15th century, the Castilians destroyed the settlement in retaliation for piracy. The modern history of the city starts around the late 15th century...

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