Editing Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera (section)

==History==
{{Main|Conquest of the Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera (1508)|Conquest of the Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera (1564)}}
[[Image:Mapa del sur de España neutral.png|thumb|right|Current Spanish possessions in Northern Africa]]
[[File:Peñón de Velez de la Gomera..jpg|thumb|right|1692 engraving of the {{Lang|es|Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera|italic=no}}, by [[Lucas Vostermans]] of Antwerp]]

[[Portugal]] and [[Spain]] passed an agreement in 1496 in which they effectively established their zones of influence on the [[North Africa]]n coast.  As a result, Spain could occupy territory only east of {{Lang|es|Peñón de Vélez|italic=no}}. This restriction ended with the [[Iberian Union]] of Portugal and Spain in 1580 under [[Felipe II of Spain|Philip II]] after the 1578 [[Battle of Alcácer Quibir]], when Spain started to take direct actions in [[Morocco]], as in the occupation of [[Larache]].<ref name="Kissling 103">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cPlP5Y4of7AC&pg=PA103 |title=The Last Great Muslim Empires: History of the Muslim World |first1=Hans Joachim |last1=Kissling |first2=Bertold |last2=Spuler |display-authors=etal |translator-last1=Bagley |translator-first1=F. R. C. |page=103 |date=29 October 1996 |location=[[Princeton, New Jersey]] |publisher=Markus Wiener Publishers |isbn=978-1-55876-112-4 |access-date=29 October 2018 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>

In 1508, Spain launched a successful expedition under the command of [[Pedro Navarro]] to take the ''{{Lang|es|[[peñón]]}}'' located near [[Badis (town)|Badis]], held by [[pirate]]s who were constantly attacking and looting the coast of southern Spain.

In 1522, Spain lost the ''{{Lang|es|peñón}}'' to a Moroccan Berber attack that resulted in the deaths of the entire Spanish garrison. [[Ali Abu Hassun]], the new [[Wattasid dynasty|Wattasid]] ruler of Morocco in 1554, then gave the ''{{Lang|es|peñón}}'' to the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] troops who had assisted him in gaining the throne.<ref name="Kissling 103"/>

The Ottomans used it as a base for corsairs operating in the region of the [[Strait of Gibraltar]]. The [[Saadi dynasty|Sa'di]] sultan [[Abdallah al-Ghalib]] was alarmed by this activity, fearing that the Ottomans might use the town of ''Badis'' as a base from which to undertake the conquest of Morocco. In 1564, he forced the Moroccans to evacuate the town and the ''{{Lang|es|peñón}}'', which he handed over to the Spaniards. The Moroccan population [[Retirement|retired]] to the [[kasbah]] of [[Senada]].<ref name="EI2">{{Cite encyclopedia|year=1986|editor3-link=Clifford Edmund Bosworth|editor5-first=W. P.|editor5-last=Heinrichs|editor4-first=E.|editor4-last=van Donzel|editor3-first=C. E.|editor3-last=Bosworth|editor2-first=Th.|editor2-last=Bianquis|editor1-first=P.|editor1-last=Bearman|editor5-link=Wolfhart Heinrichs|editor1-link=Peri Bearman|title=Bādis|isbn=9004081143|page=859|volume=I|edition=2nd|publication-place=Leiden, Netherlands|orig-year=1960|first=G. S.|last=Colin|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-2/badis-SIM_0995|publisher=[[Brill Publishers]]|encyclopedia=[[Encyclopaedia of Islam]]|doi=10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_0995}}</ref>

In 2012, the territory [[2012 Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera incident|was briefly assaulted]] by seven Moroccan activists belonging to the [[Committee for the Liberation of Ceuta and Melilla]], whose leader was [[Yahya Yahya]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2012/08/29/espana/1346231356.html|title=Cuatro activistas marroquíes intentan ocupar el Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera|first=Paqui|last=Sánchez|newspaper=[[El Mundo (Spain)|El Mundo]]|date=29 August 2012|language=es}}</ref>