Coast of Tamasna

The Atlantic coast around Tamasna is broken by river mouths and exposed to the ocean west of Morocco. To the north, Rabat and Salé face one another across the Bou Regreg, whose estuary offered a harbor to merchants and corsairs. In the early seventeenth century refugees expelled from Spain joined the communities of the two banks. Their ships ranged into the Atlantic, and the corsairs of Salé became feared by European seafarers as well as participants in the politics of the Moroccan coast.