The Spanish town of Melilla (about 55,000 inhabitants) is an exclave on the Mediterranean coast of Morocco. Walls surrounded the city located on a peninsula. From the port, iron, lead, zinc, fish and fruit are exported. The most important industries of Melilla are fish processing and shipbuilding. The city dates back to a foundation of the Phoenicians called Rusadir. It stood successively under the rule of the Romans and the Arabs before it fell to Spain in 1497.
The city was initially border fortress of the Kingdom of Tlemcen and the Kingdom of Fez. In 1497 the city was conquered by Spain. Since the founding of the state in 1956 Morocco has been claiming Melilla, the neighboring Ceuta as well as some small Spanish islands off the coast of Africa, which also belong to the group of the Plaza de soberanía.
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The representative center of Melilla is the Plaza de España, wherefrom radiate the large streets of the new town, first of all the main commercial street the Avenida del Generalissmo Franco. To the west, the beautiful park Hernández borders with the palm trees and araucaria (evergreen trees). The Paseo del General Macias leads past the harbor to the walled old town, the Ciudad de la Montaña, because of its location on steep rocks also called "Acrópolis".
Migrants from Black African countries are trying to get to Melilla via Algeria and Morocco to enter Spain or other EU countries. The city is protected against illegal immigration with two fences (3 m and 6 m high, an increase in the lower fences is also planned to 6 m), motion detectors, night vision equipment and cameras; the Guardia Civil patrols here.
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