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The city of Ceuta is currently the centre of a major immigration crisis between Spain and Morocco (it's a city on the Moroccan coast, but it has been under Portuguese then Spanish rule since the early 15th century)

So I did some research and learned that in 1437 Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal (his portrait in the picture) led a Portuguese military expedition to capture the Muslim city of Tangier (in what is today Morocco). The campaign failed significantly, and the Portuguese army found themselves surrounded and facing annihilation by Muslim forces.

To secure the safe withdrawal of his remaining troops, Prince Henry signed a treaty with the Muslim authorities, agreeing to surrender the city of Ceuta — which the Portuguese had conquered in 1415 — back to the Muslims.

As a guarantee that they would honor this agreement, the Portuguese left Prince Ferdinand, the younger brother of King Duarte of Portugal (and of Prince Henry), as a hostage in Muslim hands.

The Portuguese Crown, however, refused to honor the promise to return Ceuta. King Duarte and the Portuguese government ultimately decided that the strategic value of Ceuta outweighed the life of the prince. As a result, the city was never returned to Moroccan control.

Prince Ferdinand remained in captivity for the rest of his life, dying in a Muslim prison in 1443, for which he became known in Portuguese history as "The Constant Prince" (*O Infante Santo*).

Ceuta remained under Portuguese control for over two centuries until it was formally ceded to Spain in 1668 by the Treaty of Lisbon, and has been under Spanish rule until today. There were Muslim attempts to regain it from the Spanish by military force but they unfortunately didn't succeed, the last serious attempt being in the early 18th century.

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Today I learned that a Portuguese prince promised Muslims that he will return the city of Ceuta to them if they spare his soldiers, the Muslims accepted, but he didn't kept his promise

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