Why Does Spain Own Cities Inside Africa?

Описание: Here's a riddle. Two cities fly the flag of Spain — yet they sit in Africa, surrounded by Morocco, and they're inside the European Union. These are Ceuta and Melilla — and you can walk from Morocco straight into the EU, on foot.

In this video we unpack the four forces that put Spanish cities on the African coast and kept them there for six centuries: an early conquest (Ceuta was Portuguese before it was Spanish; Melilla fell in 1497), the priceless geography of the Strait of Gibraltar, the treaties that froze the map in place — and the fences that hold the line today. We also look at the other side of the argument: Morocco's claim, the world's shortest land border, and the mirror irony of Gibraltar.

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