La Mamora

La Mamora stood at the mouth of the Sebou River on Morocco’s Atlantic coast, at the site later called Mehdia. In the early seventeenth century it was a center of privateering. Spanish forces seized it in 1614 and built the fortress of San Miguel de Ultramar on a height above the estuary. Sultan Moulay Ismail recovered the stronghold in 1681 after the Spanish garrison surrendered.