Showing posts with label Melilla (Spain). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Melilla (Spain). Show all posts

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Melilla


It have never come to my mind of knowing someone from Melilla until I stumbled upon one ad in Facebook discussion group. So, this is a postcard from Melilla, sent by José Manuel, stamped and postmarked from Melilla.

This is from Wikipedia : Melilla (Tarifit: Tamelilt/Mritch, meaning "the white one") is an autonomous Spanish city located on the Mediterranean, on the north coast of North Africa. It was regarded as a part of Málaga province prior to 14 March 1995, when the city's Statute of Autonomy was passed.

Melilla was a free port before Spain joined the European Union. As of 2008 it has a population of 71,448. Its population consists of Christians, Muslims (chiefly Berber), and small minorities of Jews. Both Spanish and Tarifit-Berber are widely spoken. Spanish is the official language, while there have been calls to recognize Berber as well