19 Facts About Ceuta

Ceuta is a Spanish autonomous city on the north coast of Africa.

Ceuta had to endure alone for 43 years, until the position of the city was consolidated with the taking of Ksar es-Seghir, Arzila and Tangier by the Portuguese.

Ceuta became the only city of the Portuguese Empire that sided with Spain, when Portugal regained its independence in the Portuguese Restoration War of 1640.

Disagreements regarding the border of Ceuta resulted in the Hispano-Moroccan War, which ended at the Battle of Tetuan.

Ceuta became one of the first casualties of the uprising: General Franco's rebel nationalist forces seized Ceuta, while at the same time the city came under fire from the air and sea forces of the official republican government.

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Since 2010, Ceuta have declared the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, or Feast of the Sacrifice, an official public holiday.

Ceuta Peninsula has been recognised as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because the site is part of a migratory bottleneck, or choke point, at the western end of the Mediterranean for large numbers of raptors, storks and other birds flying between Europe and Africa.

Ceuta has a maritime-influenced Mediterranean climate, similar to nearby Spanish and Moroccan cities such as Tarifa, Algeciras or Tangiers.

Ceuta has relatively mild winters for the latitude, while summers are warm yet milder than in the interior of Southern Spain, due to the moderating effect of the Straits of Gibraltar.

Since 1995, Ceuta is, along with Melilla, one of the two autonomous cities of Spain.

Ceuta is known officially in Spanish as, with a rank between a standard municipality and an autonomous community.

Since 1979, Ceuta has held elections to its 25-seat assembly every four years.

Ceuta is subdivided into 63, such as Barriada de Berizu, Barriada de P Alfonso, Barriada del Sarchal, and El Hacho.

Ceuta is one of two Spanish port cities on the northern shore of Africa, along with Melilla.

Ceuta Heliport is used to connect the city to mainland Spain by air.

City's Port of Ceuta receives high numbers of ferries each day from Algeciras in Andalusia in the south of Spain.

The Diocese of Ceuta was a suffragan of Lisbon until 1675, when it became a suffragan of Seville.

In 1851, Ceuta's administration was notionally merged into the Diocese of Cadiz and Ceuta as part of a concordat between Spain and the Holy See; the union was not actually accomplished until 1879.

One of the chief arguments used by Morocco to reclaim Ceuta comes from geography, as this exclave, which is surrounded by Morocco and the Mediterranean Sea, has no territorial continuity with the rest of Spanish territory.