Martil

Martil is a town and concrete commune of coast Mediterranean in northern Morocco, situated on the mouth of the homonymous river. That's a part of the vicinity of Tangier-Tetouan and the metropolis of M'diq-Fnideq. In 2004 it had 39 011 population and it became envisioned that during 2010 it had 43165. The town become a part of the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco and is now a popular beach resort, located 10 km north of Tetouan. The Martil River become navigable in antiquity to the Roman colony of Tamuda, situated in front of the prevailing city of Tetuan. Later, till the 18th century, Martil changed into the primary Mediterranean port in Morocco and a corsairs and change base with several foreign ports.

The pastime of the corsairs took the king Henry III of Castile to have to construct a squadron so that it destroyed the port and the Tetuao ni century XV. Martil fell into decay with the growth of the port of Tangier, becoming an essentially fishing port. In 1860, Spanish troops took the so-referred to as Fort Martil, a defensive production that blanketed the doorway of the river, in a preceding action of the taking of Tetuao. During the Spanish protectorate, a everlasting navy garrison became hooked up in Martil in 1912, around which a recreational locality for the inhabitants of Tetuao grew, specially for the colonists and Spanish navy.