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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Calderón Vázquez, Francisco J.
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
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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.