Showing posts with label B4Bs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label B4Bs. Show all posts

Thursday, February 1, 2007

Dear B4Bers

I have created an new weblog, http://b4b07.blogspot.com/, that I will be using to share with you my blogging experience in order to free http://mydearstudents.blogspot.com from the heavy loads of audio and video which are causing trouble for you and for my students as well since most of them have a low speed connection.

You can always visit this blog as it is the mother blog where you can find the links to B4B 07 and all the other blogs on the side bar.

Please accept my apologies if this change causes any inconvenience.
Thank you.

Karim,

Tetuan.

Sunday, January 28, 2007

Dear B4Bs, Take a tour around Tetuan.


TETUAN


THE WHITE DOVE



A lovely white Andalusian city set upon the Mediterranean Sea near Tangier, Tetuan traces its origins back to the 3rd century B.C. Then it was a settlement called Tamouda which existed until 42 A. D.. when it was destroyed by Roman armies.

When the Merinid sultan Abu Thabit constructed a kasbah at Tetuan in 1307, the Muslim city began to find its form. However, as a refuge for Barbary pirates, Tetuan drew the wrath of the Castilian king Henry III whose forces overran the city and sacked it in 1399.
For a century thereafter, Tetuan went into a period of decline until coming under the Andalusian influence of refugees from Granada. From 1484 the city took on some of the rich architectural and cultural character of Muslim Spain, traces of which can still be seen today.
In 1913 Tetuan became the capital of Spain's protectorate until independence in 1956.



Located in an agricultural area, modern Tetuan is a market center for the surrounding area where grain, livestock, citrus fruit and handicrafts are traded.
In addition, a variety of goods are manufactured in and around the city, including tobacco, soap, matches, building materials and textiles. The town's principal industries are printing, cabinet making and fish canning.

Tetuan/Asmir Association.