Tanger

Tangier

After a Phoenician presence, of which there are two small necropolises, the Carthaginians made the city an important trading post in the 4th century BC. AD 146 BC. AD, at the fall of Carthage, the city is included in the kingdom of Mauretania. Tangier (Tingis) takes on such importance that it becomes, around the 1st century, the capital of the Roman province of Mauretania Tingitane. It is one of the main cities of the Diocese of Hispania, which brings together the Spanish provinces and Tingitane after the administrative reform of Emperor Diocletian. It was under his reign that the martyrs of Saint Marcel and Saint Cassien took place. The city is strongly Christianized in the following centuries.

Called by Count Boniface who would have even organized their passage, the Arians, accompanied by Alains, people and army, that is to say 80,000 people, crossed the Strait of Gibraltar in 4293 in exchange for the promise of military support to the count4. Very quickly at odds with Boniface, they beat the Romans and could not be contained around Tangier and Ceuta (then Septem Fratres) 5. But they prefer to turn to what will become the vandal kingdom of Africa (eastern Algeria and current Tunisia)