Melilla

Melilla is a Spanish self reliant town positioned on the north coast of Africa, sharing a border with Morocco, with an area of 12.3 km2. Melilla is considered one of two completely inhabited Spanish cities in mainland Africa, the opposite being Ceuta. It changed into part of the Province of Malaga until 14 March 1995, whilst the metropolis's Statute of Autonomy changed into exceeded. The modern Berber name of Melilla is Mric or Mlilt, this means that the "white one".

Melilla changed into an historical Berber village and a Phoenician and later Punic alternate established order underneath the name of Rusadir Rusaddir for the Romans and Russadeiron for the Greeks. Later it became a part of the Roman province of Mauretania Tingitana. Rusaddir is noted by using Ptolemy and Pliny who call it "oppidum et portus", additionally cited by using Mela I, 33 as Rusicada, and by means of the Itinerarium Antonini.

Rusaddir become imagined to have once been the seat of a bishop, however there is no document of any bishop of the meant see, which is not blanketed in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees. As centuries surpassed, it went via Vandal, Byzantine and Hispano-Visigothic palms. The political records is much like that of towns within the place of the Moroccan Rif and southern Spain.