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[[File:Alcudia de Berberia.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Tomb of Sidi Mesaud and the hill of Cazaza.]]
'''Cazaza''' was a [[Plazas de soberanía|Spanish enclave]] on the western coast of [[Cape Three Forks]], in what is today [[Morocco]], around 18&nbsp;km from [[Melilla]]. It was here that the exiled [[Muhammad XII of Granada|Boabdil]], last [[Nasrid dynasty|Emir of Granada]], landed when he left the [[Iberian Peninsula]] in 1492.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://portal.protecturi.org/espana-y-el-mediterraneo-prolegomenos-de-la-conquista-de-africa-en-tiempos-de-los-reyes-catolicos/ |title=España y el Mediterráneo: Prolegómenos de la conquista de África en tiempos de los Reyes Católicos |last=Vidal |first=Rafael |date=29 July 2011 |website= Protecturi, Asociación para la Protección del Patrimonio Histórico |publisher=Protecturi |access-date=18 April 2018}}</ref>
In 1505 Spanish forces based in Melilla led by [[Juan Alfonso Pérez de Guzmán, 3rd Duke of Medina Sidonia]] took Cazaza from the [[Wattasid dynasty|Wattasid]] [[Kingdom of Fez]].<ref name="Lamport2017">{{cite book|author=Mark A. Lamport|title=Encyclopedia of Martin Luther and the Reformation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ih8wDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA190|date=31 August 2017|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-1-4422-7159-3|pages=190–}}</ref> [[Ferdinand II of Aragon|King Ferdinand]] granted him the title 'Marquess of Cazaza', which survives to this day.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://elretohistorico.com/medina-sidonia-y-la-conquista-de-las-tierras-aridas/ |title=Medina Sidonia y la conquista de las tierras áridas |last=Ferreiro |first=Miguel Angel|date=26 August 2016 |website= El Rete Historico |publisher=El Rete Historico |access-date=18 April 2018}}</ref>  Although the noble title has endured, the Spanish lost control of Cazaza in 1533<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/spain/vol4/no2/pp607-624|title = Spain: March 1533, 1-15 &#124; British History Online}}</ref> because of the treachery of five of its garrison who betrayed it.<ref>{{Citation
| last  = Gutierrez Cruz
| first = Rafael
| title = EL SOCORRO DE MELILLA DE 1535: DOCUMENTOS PARA SU ESTUDIO
| journal = Baetica: Estudios de Arte, Geografia e Historia
| volume  = 35
| issue   =
| year    = 2013
| pages   = 218
| url     = https://riuma.uma.es/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10630/7813/09%20%20RAFAEL%20GUTIERREZ.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
}}</ref>
It was never rebuilt after the destruction when it was conquered. Its ruins are visible today.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Al-Andalus Magreb: Estudios árabes e islámicos|first=Enrique|last=Gozalbes Cravioto|title=Notas sobre Cazaza, puerto de Fez y fortaleza española (1506-1533)
|volume=15|year=2008|pages=135–155|issn=1133-8571|publisher=[[Universidad de Cádiz|Universidad de Cádiz: Servicio de Publicaciones]]|location=Cádiz}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[European enclaves in North Africa before 1830]]
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