Tétouan

Tétouan was a city-state in northern Morocco near the Strait of Gibraltar. The Marinid sultan Abu Thabit fortified it in 1305, but Castilian forces destroyed it in 1399 in retaliation for piracy.

In the late fifteenth century Ali al-Mandri, a refugee from Granada, rebuilt and fortified Tétouan. Muslims and Jews from Andalusia settled there, and the city became a centre of Andalusian culture in Morocco.