Portuguese Tangier
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Portuguese Tangier (Arabic: طنجة البرتغالية; Portuguese: Tânger Portuguesa) covers the period of Portuguese rule over Tangier, today a city in Morocco. The territory was ruled by the Kingdom of Portugal from 1471 to 1661.
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Portuguese Tangier | |||||||||
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1471–1661 | |||||||||
Status | Territory of the Portuguese Empire | ||||||||
Capital | Tânger | ||||||||
Religion | Roman Catholicism Sunni Islam (Majority) | ||||||||
Government | Colonial administration | ||||||||
King | |||||||||
• 1471–1477 (first) | Afonso V | ||||||||
• 1656–1661 (last) | Afonso VI | ||||||||
Captain | |||||||||
• 1471–1484 (first) | Rodrigo Afonso de Melo | ||||||||
• 1661–1662 (last) | Luis de Almeida | ||||||||
Historical era | Early modern period | ||||||||
1471 | |||||||||
• First siege of Tangier | 1501 | ||||||||
23 June 1661 | |||||||||
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Today part of | Morocco |
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