Ghassasa

Ghassasa was a medieval coastal settlement on the western side of the Tres Forcas peninsula in northeastern Morocco. Written sources and archaeological remains show its connections with al-Andalus across the Mediterranean. In 1505 forces of the Duke of Medina Sidonia captured the port, known to the Spanish as Cazaza. Its harbor lay west of Melilla, amid the mountains and headlands of the eastern Rif.