Rethinking the Castile's African Frontier: An Interethnic Boundary?
Castile's African border—and the settlements it formed—has been traditionally considered as a border of exclusion, islands separated from the North African environment, little European islets lost in Africa. Nevertheless, Spanish-Maghrebi interactions in the enclaves were constant, with a zone...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA NORTE |
| Repositorio: | Frontera Norte |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistas.colef.mx:article/180 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://fronteranorte.colef.mx/index.php/fronteranorte/article/view/180 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | ethnic boundaries crossborder interactions Hispanic-Maghrebi conflict Mediterranean borders fronteras interétnicas interacciones transfronterizas fronteras mediterráneas conflictos hispano-magrebíes relaciones Europa-Magreb |
| Sumario: | Castile's African border—and the settlements it formed—has been traditionally considered as a border of exclusion, islands separated from the North African environment, little European islets lost in Africa. Nevertheless, Spanish-Maghrebi interactions in the enclaves were constant, with a zone of inter-ethnic contact emerging between Maghrebis and Spaniards, a scenario of a wide range of interactions of various kinds, made possible by cross-border intermediaries (peaceful Moors and interpreters known as lenguas, trujamanes, and mogataces) that through the intermediation of both sides formed a thick tapestry whose greatest expression was found in the Orán-Mazalquivir enclave. |
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