Geography Algeciras is located in southern Spain, near Tarifa , is also a city near the Gibraltar Strait.
History
Continuously inhabited since the man of Neanderthal , Algeciras was an important city since the Phoenician period. The Romans founded three cities on the present site of the city: Iulia Traducta, Caetaria (now Getares) and Portus Albus. Algeciras has suffered after the fall of the Roman Empire and the invasion of Germanic barbarians and allies, especially the vandals.
Conquered by Byzantium and the kingdom Visigoth , the city was invaded by the Arabs who built their first city under the name "alcaetaria" (adding the definite article in Arabic name of the preexisting Roman city) or "aljezirah alkhadra" ("Green Island"). In 858 , Algeciras was sacked by the head Viking Hasting .
It again became Spanish after its reconquest in 1344 to the Moors by Alfonso XI of Castile , after a siege of two years, where the Moors made use of the gun, still unknown in Europe. Reoccupied by the Arabs, it was destroyed by King Muhammad V of Granada.
The city grew in 1704 thanks to the influx of Spanish refugees from Gibraltar , who fled the Rock which the English had seized.
Admiral Linois to beat a division UK in 1801 ( Battle of Algeciras ).
Transport
The port of Algeciras is located at the entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar. It provides an important passenger traffic (4.5 million per year) and vehicles (1 million) between Spain and Morocco. Port traffic rises to 65 Mt in 2005. The Port of Algeciras Bay is experiencing strong growth in traffic of containers due to its location. He even became the first container port in the Mediterranean. It is a hub , that is to say a transhipment port, home to large container ships on the routes between the Europe to Asia or America to Asia via the Mediterranean and the channel Suez. Containers are then loaded onto smaller ships to reach their final destination .
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