Badis

Badis was a Mediterranean port on Morocco's Rif coast. Its position linked the coastal communities and mountain hinterland with shipping across the western Mediterranean. The settlement lay opposite the rock later known as the Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera.

In 1508 the amir of Badis addressed a commercial treaty and a letter to the Venetian doge, seeking to establish trading relations. That same year a Spanish force occupied the rock facing the town. The distinction between the port on the mainland and the fortified offshore rock matters when tracing the changing control of this stretch of coast.