Post #4309563
2026-08-01 05:41 UTC
About Ceuta and Melilla: 🧵
“Melilla has been Spanish since 1497 and Ceuta since 1668, when it passed from Portugal to the Crown. Melilla, when Castile took it, was in ruins and under nobody's effective control: the Wattasids of Fez and the Zayyanids of Tlemcen were contesting it without actually occupying it. It was not seized from any State; a void was occupied. The Alaouite dynasty, the one reigning today, did not come to power until the 1660s: almost two centuries later. (1/4)
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@titociuro@mstdn.social 2026-08-01 05:41
But the Spanish title does not depend on that date, and therein lies its strength. It depends on five centuries of continuous, peaceful, and effective possession, with a population that holds Spanish citizenship, votes in Spanish elections, and is represented in Congress. That is acquisitive prescription, the most solid form of sovereignty recognized by international law. (2/4)