Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A Spanish city of northwest Africa, an enclave in Morocco on the Strait of Gibraltar. A flourishing trade city under the Arabs, it was taken by the Portuguese in 1415 and passed to Spain in 1580.
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- proper noun A Spanish
enclave at the edge ofMorocco
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Examples
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A student born in Ceuta, Morocco, can go to attend a conference in Canada without a visa.
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At last Dom Fernando, the youngest of the brothers, a lad of fourteen, proposed that their knighthood should be earned by an expedition to take Ceuta from the Moors.
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At first it was his intention, to paddle from Gibraltar to Ceuta, which is almost on a straight line across; but on account of the currents, that course was changed and Tarifa, the lowest land in Europe, was selected as the starting point, from which place he was confident he would be able to strike the African coast somewhere.
The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World Paul Boyton 1881
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The communication between thefe two Moorifli towns is interrupted by the fortrefs of Ceuta, which is part - ed from Spain, to which it belongs, only by a ftrait of five leagues.
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D. 711] the people of the Saracens, crossing over from Africa at a place which is called Ceuta, invaded all Spain.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905
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AQIM urges its followers to "take back Ceuta and Melilla by force, because they were taken by force."
The Terrorists in Europe's Backyard Avi Jorisch 2011
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Far-flung outposts include the Canary Islands and two north African enclaves called Melilla and Ceuta.
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Spain is often mentioned in AQIM statements because of its "occupation of Ceuta and Melilla," two small autonomous Spanish ex-clave cities on the north coast of Morocco.
The Terrorists in Europe's Backyard Avi Jorisch 2011
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On the face Gibraltar and Ceuta should be totally inoffensive.
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When Spain gave Morocco back most of the "occupied territory" in 1956, it kept Ceuta on the grounds it had the city before it grabbed the rest.
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