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Tarifa
Tarifa is a town at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula in the province of Cádiz, Spain, facing Morocco across the Strait of Gibraltar. Named after the Berber commander Tarif ibn Malik, who landed there in 710, it was captured by Sancho IV of Castile in 1292 and famously defended by Alonso Pérez de Guzmán in 1294. The Battle of Río Salado nearby in 1340 ended major Marinid intervention in Spain.
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