Garcilaso cries bitterly for the loss of Los Gelves, the name given in 16th century Spain to the current island of Djerba, in Tunisia. A national trauma at that time. Ceuta, Melilla, Vélez de la Gomera, Mazalquivir, Oran, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, among other places, were in the running. In the Modern Era, never as in the 16th century was the Maghreb a key, strategic scenario, in the struggle for power, and for control of the trade routes, between the powers of the time, which, at that time, were the Kingdom. of Spain and the Ottoman Empire.
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