Historia completa de Ceuta | La ciudad más asediada de la historia de España
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Autumn of 1720, on the city walls. The soldier on guard duty has been sleeping fully clothed for weeks, because every few days the ground trembles: beneath it lie tunnels of sapping. In front of him is a camp of thousands of men. Behind him is the sea, and everything that is eaten comes in by sea, because nothing is grown within those walls. That soldier was born during the siege, and his father stood guard on those same walls. The siege had begun on October 23, 1694, and would not be lifted until 1727: thirty-three consecutive years, the longest siege on record. The city is less than twenty square kilometers and it did not surrender.
The city is Ceuta, and that's where the question of this video comes from. Why is a city right next to Africa, with the Moroccan coast a fifteen-minute walk away, Spanish? And the answer isn't what almost everyone assumes, because Spain never conquered Ceuta: there is no record of a battle in which it was won from Morocco.
Ceuta is Spanish thanks to a six-hundred-year-old document, and this video unravels it page by page.
Because what makes Ceuta Spanish is not an inherent fact or a geographical accident: it's a decision made by some residents in the dark one night in 1640, and three hundred and eighty-six years of documents confirming their decision.
🕐 CHAPTERS
00:00 The 33-Year Siege
01:50 Ceuta and Gibraltar
03:25 Carthage, Rome, and the Garum of Septem
05:28 711: The Door Opens to the North
06:56 Seven Islamic Centuries in the Iberian Peninsula
08:39 1415: The Secret of the Infantes
11:15 The Magnificent and Empty Port
12:42 The Night of 1640: The Residents of Ceuta Decide
15:44 Muley Ismail and the Thirty-Three Years
17:30 The Century in Which the Border Was Negotiated
19:04 The War in Africa
20:53 Spain and Morocco in the 20th Century
22:45 The Two Arguments about Ceuta
24:48 The Verdict: Ceuta Belongs to...
27:00 The Decision
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Historia completa de Ceuta | La ciudad más asediada de la historia de España
IsPhannim
2,743 views
Autumn of 1720, on the city walls. The soldier on guard duty has been sleeping fully clothed for weeks, because every few days the ground trembles: beneath it lie tunnels of sapping. In front of him is a camp of thousands of men. Behind him is the sea, and everything that is eaten comes in by sea, because nothing is grown within those walls. That soldier was born during the siege, and his father stood guard on those same walls. The siege had begun on October 23, 1694, and would not be lifted until 1727: thirty-three consecutive years, the longest siege on record. The city is less than twenty square kilometers and it did not surrender.
The city is Ceuta, and that's where the question of this video comes from. Why is a city right next to Africa, with the Moroccan coast a fifteen-minute walk away, Spanish? And the answer isn't what almost everyone assumes, because Spain never conquered Ceuta: there is no record of a battle in which it was won from Morocco.
Ceuta is Spanish thanks to a six-hundred-year-old document, and this video unravels it page by page.
Because what makes Ceuta Spanish is not an inherent fact or a geographical accident: it's a decision made by some residents in the dark one night in 1640, and three hundred and eighty-six years of documents confirming their decision.
🕐 CHAPTERS
00:00 The 33-Year Siege
01:50 Ceuta and Gibraltar
03:25 Carthage, Rome, and the Garum of Septem
05:28 711: The Door Opens to the North
06:56 Seven Islamic Centuries in the Iberian Peninsula
08:39 1415: The Secret of the Infantes
11:15 The Magnificent and Empty Port
12:42 The Night of 1640: The Residents of Ceuta Decide
15:44 Muley Ismail and the Thirty-Three Years
17:30 The Century in Which the Border Was Negotiated
19:04 The War in Africa
20:53 Spain and Morocco in the 20th Century
22:45 The Two Arguments about Ceuta
24:48 The Verdict: Ceuta Belongs to...
27:00 The Decision
If you like history told with supporting documents... Table, subscribe: there's a new video every week.
#History #Ceuta #Spain #Morocco #StraitOfGibraltar #Morocco #RomansInHispania #Portugal