The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . r of anysuch relics as still existing. The family of El Khatib, ® It had, however, existed for ages prior to tliis date, and is said tohave been the Yagath of the Romans, * but it is also spoken of as Tetu-anum. • Tissot has identified its river as the Tamuda of Pliny, and thePhalouda of Ptolemy. ^ • In Raod el Kartas this is spoken of as its foundation,—p. 513. * The^ Moorish Empire contains the following historical allusion to Tetuan: taken byArabs, 24; Abu Ainan proclaimed, 103; attacked by Enrique III. of Spain, 108; foreignmerchants the
The land of the Moors; a comprehensive description . r of anysuch relics as still existing. The family of El Khatib, ® It had, however, existed for ages prior to tliis date, and is said tohave been the Yagath of the Romans, * but it is also spoken of as Tetu-anum. • Tissot has identified its river as the Tamuda of Pliny, and thePhalouda of Ptolemy. ^ • In Raod el Kartas this is spoken of as its foundation,—p. 513. * The^ Moorish Empire contains the following historical allusion to Tetuan: taken byArabs, 24; Abu Ainan proclaimed, 103; attacked by Enrique III. of Spain, 108; foreignmerchants there, 159, expelled, 393; El Yazeed flees to it, 169; attacked by Spam, 176-7;pledged to Spain, 177, 340; El Hasan reception, i8g; missionaries there, 326,327> 330. 340- ^ GODARD, p. 394. * RiCHAKDSON, p. III. * JamES, Vol. ii., p. II. •> p, 20. PIRACY 143 however, preserved not only the key and deeds of theirhouse in Granada, but also the sword of \M\ Abd Allah,(Boabdil), until they were taken by the Spaniards inthe war of Iiituv. ENTRANCE TO JEWISH QUARTER, TETUAX. In 1564 piracy was again flourishing here, for inthat year Felipe 11. of Spain sent an expedition whichdestroyed all local vessels. For some timeprevious to 1772 Tetuan was the residence ofthe foreign representatives, but in that year they wereordered to Tangier, as considerable ill-feeling towardsthe Christians had arisen in consequence of the accidentalshooting of a Moorish woman by an Englishman, whenhunting in the neighbourhood. In 1727 there wereliving there, in addition to slaves, eight Europeans, four Castellanos, p. 44. - AiDiiial Kfi;islct; vol. xv., pp. 122 and 124. 144 TETUAN of them English merchants, one a Greek merchant, andanother the French consul. In that year, on the deathof Mulai Ismail, the palace was ruined, but was subse-quently rebuilt, and the fortifications date chiefly from1757. The Mellah, the great mosque and other workswere constructed by Malai Sulaiman in 1808
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