Facts in brief:
Spanish town located on coast of Morocco; colonized by Carthaginians, Greeks & Romans; became independent under Byzantine governor
Count Julian; commercially important in ivory, gold & slaves; taken by Portuguese in 1415; became Spanish in 1580.
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