Cazaza was a Spanish enclave on the western coast of Cape Three Forks , in what is today Morocco , around 18 km from Melilla . It was here that the exiled Boabdil , last Emir of Granada , landed when he left the Iberian Peninsula in 1492.
3-573: In 1505 Spanish forces based in Melilla led by Juan Alfonso Pérez de Guzmán, 3rd Duke of Medina Sidonia took Cazaza from the Wattasid Kingdom of Fez . King Ferdinand granted him the title 'Marquess of Cazaza', which survives to this day. Although the noble title has endured, the Spanish lost control of Cazaza in 1533 because of the treachery of five of its garrison who betrayed it. It
6-563: The title in 1492, aged 28. In 1502, as Gibraltar was transferred to the Crown, the Marquisate of Gibraltar disappeared. His mother is known as Leonor de Mendoza y Ribera, although he was known by using as his second name "Afan de Ribera". This could be because his mother was a Mendoza, and it was not unknown for women and ecclesiastics to use the name of their mother, in spite of her father being an "Afan de Ribera". He married twice, being
9-500: Was never rebuilt after the destruction when it was conquered. Its ruins are visible today. 35°16′40″N 3°5′17″W / 35.27778°N 3.08806°W / 35.27778; -3.08806 This Oriental (Morocco) location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Juan Alfonso P%C3%A9rez de Guzm%C3%A1n, 3rd Duke of Medina Sidonia Don Juan Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Afán de Ribera, 3rd Duke of Medina Sidonia (February 1464 – 1507) inherited
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