Portuguese Tangier
Portuguese Tangier | |||||||||
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| 1471–1661 | |||||||||
Portuguese Tangier depicted in Civitates Orbis Terrarum, 1572. | |||||||||
| Status | Territory of the African Algarve, within the Portuguese Empire | ||||||||
| Capital | Tânger | ||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism Sunni Islam (Majority) | ||||||||
| Government | African Algarve | ||||||||
| King | |||||||||
• 1471–1477 (first) | Afonso V | ||||||||
• 1656–1661 (last) | Afonso VI | ||||||||
| Captain | |||||||||
• 1471–1484 (first) | Rodrigo Afonso de Melo | ||||||||
• 1661–1662 (last) | Luis de Almeida | ||||||||
| Historical era | Early modern period | ||||||||
| 1471 | |||||||||
• First siege of Tangier | 1501 | ||||||||
| 23 June 1661 | |||||||||
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| Today part of | Morocco | ||||||||
Portuguese Tangier (Arabic: طنجة البرتغالية; Portuguese: Tânger Portuguesa) covers the period of Portuguese rule over Tangier, today a city in Morocco. The territory was ruled by the Kingdom of Portugal from 1471 to 1580, 1641 to 1661.