Algeciras

Algeciras is a port town in the south of Spain, and is the most important metropolis on the Bay of Gibraltar. The Port of Algeciras is one of the largest ports in Europe and the arena in three classes: box, cargo and transhipment. It is positioned 20 km north-east of Tarifa at the Rio de la Miel, that's the southernmost river of the Iberian peninsula and continental Europe. In 2015, it had a populace of 118,920. It is the biggest city among those of its metropolitan vicinity that still includes the municipalities of Los Barrios, La Linea de la Concepción, Castellar de la Frontera, Jimena de la Frontera, San Roque and Tarifa, with a populace of 263,739.

The location of the city has been populated considering the fact that prehistory, and the earliest remains belong to Neanderthal populations from the Paleolithic era. Due to its strategic role it changed into an critical port under the Phoenicians, and turned into the web site of the applicable Roman port of Portus Albus, with two nearby towns known as Caetaria and Iulia Transducta, founded by way of the Romans. Recently it's been proposed that the website of Iulia Transducta became the Villa Vieja of Algeciras. After being destroyed by way of the Goths and their Vandal allies, the town turned into based again in April 711 by means of the invading Moors, as the first town created by way of the Amazigh on the occupied Spanish soil.