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<P><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14px">DL2RNS will be active from<STRONG><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>Melilla<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></STRONG>until 7 March 2014
as<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><STRONG>EA9/DL2RNS</STRONG><BR>He
is active on HF Bands<BR>QSL via home call<BR><IMG
style="WIDTH: 1024px; HEIGHT: 650px" alt="Melilla EA9/DL2RNS DX News"
src="http://at-communication.com/upload/Image/Melilla_EA9-DL2RNS_DX-News.jpg"></SPAN></SPAN><BR><BR><IMG
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<P>Melilla's Capilla de Santiago or James's Chapel, by the city walls, is
the only genuine Gothic architecture in Africa.</P>
<P>In the first quarter of the 20th century, Melilla became a thriving
port benefitting from the recently established Protectorate of Spanish
Morocco in the contiguous Rif. The new architectural style of Modernisme
was expressed by a new bourgeois class. This style, frequently referred to
as the Catalan version of Art Nouveau, was extremely popular in the early
part of the 20th century in Spain.</P>
<P>The workshops inspired by the Catalan architect, Enrique Nieto,
continued in the modernist style, even after Modernisme went out of
fashion elsewhere. Accordingly, Melilla has the second most important
concentration of Modernist works in Spain after Barcelona. Nieto was in
charge of designing the main Synagogue, the Central Mosque and various
Catholic Churches.</P>
<P>Melilla has been praised as an example of multiculturalism, being a
small city in which one can find up to three major religions represented.
However, the Christian majority of the past, constituting around 65% of
the population at one point, has been shrinking, while the number of
Muslims has steadily increased to its present 45% of the population due to
immigration from Muslim countries.<BR> </P>
<P>Jews, who had lived in Melilla for centuries, have been leaving the
city in recent years (from 20% of the population before World War II to
less than 5% today). Most of the Jewish population has left to Israel and
Venezuela. There is a small, autonomous, and commercially important Hindu
community present in Melilla, as well.</P>
<P>The amateur radio call sign used for both cities is EA9.<BR><BR><A
style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,153); TEXT-DECORATION: underline"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melilla">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melilla</A></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></BODY></HTML>