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Salé au XVIIe siècle, terre d'asile morisque sur le littoral Atlantique marocain

Leïla Maziane · Cahiers de la Méditerranée 79, 359–372 · 2009

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Leïla Maziane
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DOI 10.4000/cdlm.4941
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2026-09-01
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EstablishedIn 1627 the Hornachero Moriscos in the Bou Regreg kasbah proclaimed their independence and governed through an annually elected governor (caïd) and a sixteen-member divan; under an agreement of May 1630 the Andalusian Moriscos elected a caïd of their own and named half of the divan.DisputedSalé was a proto-anarchist 'pirate utopia' offering freedom to renegades.