Tlemcen’s port city is Oran, on the …
Years: 1505 - 1505
Tlemcen’s port city is Oran, on the northwestern Mediterranean coast of Algeria.
It excels in the export of lead, wool, skins, fine burnous, carpets, haïks, cumin, nuts, and galls, as well as enslaved Sub-Saharan Africans.
The Portuguese had launched a failed expedition to capture the city in July 1501.
Locations
People
Groups
- Arab people
- Berber people (also called Amazigh people or Imazighen, "free men", singular Amazigh)
- Islam
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Aragón, Kingdom of
- Aragon, Crown of
- Castile, Crown of
- Tlemcen, Kingdom of
- Tunis, Sultanate of (Hafsid Kingdom)
- Portugal, Avizan (Joannine) Kingdom of
- Portuguese Empire
- Morocco, Wattasid Sultanate of
