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<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14px">DL2RVL will be active from<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><STRONG>Melilla</STRONG><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>23 February - 7 March 2014
as<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><STRONG>EA9/DL2RVL<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></STRONG><BR>He will be active on
HF Bands<BR>QSL via home call<SPAN
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<P>Melilla is located in the northwest of the African continent, next to
the Alboran Sea and across the sea from the Spanish provinces of Granada
and Almería. The city layout is arranged in a wide semicircle around the
beach and the Port of Melilla, on the eastern side of the peninsula of
Cape Tres Forcas, at the foot of Mount Gurugú and the mouth of the Río de
Oro, 1-metre above sea level. The urban nucleus was originally a fortress,
Melilla la Vieja, built on a peninsular mound about 30 m in height.</P>
<P>The Moroccan settlement of Beni Ansar lies immediately south of
Melilla. The nearest Moroccan city is Nador, and the ports of Melilla and
Nador are both within the Bou Areg Lagoon<BR><BR> </P>
<P>Melilla was a Phoenician and later Punic establishment under the name
of Rusadir (<I>Rusaddir</I><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>for the Romans and<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>Ryssadeiron</I><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>(Ancient Greek:<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><SPAN lang=grc
xml:lang="grc">Ῥυσσάδειρον</SPAN>) for the Greeks). Later it became a part
of the Roman province of Mauretania Tingitana. Rusaddir is mentioned by
Ptolemy (IV, 1) and Pliny (V, 18) who call it "oppidum et portus", also by
Mela (I, 33), under the corrupted form Rusicada and by the<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>Itinerarium Antonini</I>. In
the early 20th century Rusaddir was supposed to have once been the seat of
a bishop, but there is no record of any bishop of the supposed see, which
is not included in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.As centuries
passed, it went through Vandal, Byzantine and Hispano-Visigothic hands.
The political history is similar to that of towns in the region of the
Moroccan Rif and southern Spain. Local rule passed through Amazigh,
Phoenician, Punic, Roman, Umayyad, Idrisid, Almoravid, Almohad, Marinid,
and then Wattasid rulers. During the Middle Ages it was the Berber city of
Mlila. It was part of the Kingdom of Fez when the Catholic Monarchs, Queen
Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon requested Juan
Alfonso Pérez de Guzmán, 3rd Duke of Medina Sidonia, to take the city.</P>
<P>In the Conquest of Melilla, the duke sent Pedro Estopiñán, who
conquered the city virtually without a fight in 1497, a few years after
Castile had taken control of the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada, the last
remnant of Al-Andalus, in 1492. Melilla was immediately threatened with
reconquest and was besieged during 1694–1696 and 1774–1775. One Spanish
officer reflected, "an hour in Melilla, from the point of view of merit,
was worth more than thirty years of service to Spain."</P>
<P>The current limits of the Spanish territory around the fortress were
fixed by treaties with Morocco in 1859, 1860, 1861, and 1894. In the late
19th century, as Spanish influence expanded, Melilla became the only
authorised centre of trade on the Rif coast between Tetuan and the
Algerian frontier. The value of trade increased, goat skins, eggs and
beeswax being the principal exports, and cotton goods, tea, sugar, and
candles being the chief imports.<BR><A
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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melilla">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melilla</A></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></BODY></HTML>