See Also: Ceuta(encyclopedia)
Ceuta(tourism)
Ab Ceuta, S.A., SICAV(finance)
Ceuta hotels(tourism)
Morgan Stanley Diner Ceuta, SICAV, S.A.(finance)

Ceuta (sh)




Arabic Sebta

Spanish enclave (pop., 2001: 137,916), North Africa.

A military station and seaport, it constitutes with Melilla an autonomous community of Spain with an area of 8 sq mi (20 sq km). The city is on a narrow isthmus that connects Jebel Musa (one of the Pillars of Hercules) to the mainland. Located in northern Morocco at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar, it was successively colonized by Carthaginians, Greeks, and Romans. Long a flourishing trading town, it was taken by the Portuguese in 1415, and it passed to Spain in 1580. In 1995 the Spanish government approved statutes of autonomy for Ceuta.