Word: ceuta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sunny Canary Islands, 72 miles off Africa's northwest coast, Spain has created a bustling tourists' paradise, complete with golf courses, luxury ho tels and fancy restaurants. Spain's three other territories - Ifni on the West Coast and the cities of Ceuta and Melilla on the Mediterranean - are little more than army bases; yet even there, Spain has taken pains to make friends with neigh boring Arabs, sometimes offering them jobs and free medical care...
...Portugal's first colony, won from the Moors in 1415, was the North African port of Ceuta, now held by Spain...