Ceuta
AD 40 Part of the Roman Empire
AD 429 Part of the Visigoth Kingdom
AD 534 - 709 Part of Byzantine Empire
AD 612 Under Visigoth suzerainty
AD 709 - 1415 Under Moorish-Islamic rule
02 Sep 1415 Conquered by Portugal
13 - 17 Aug 1419 Under siege by Morocco
17 Oct 1437 Portugual agrees to cede Ceuta to Morocco,
however the treaty is never ratified
04 Sep 1479 Ceuta a Portuguese possession
02 Apr 1580 Ceuta a possession of the Spanish Monarchy
01 Dec 1640 Portuguese independence restored
13 Feb 1668 Spanish possession recognised by Portugal
18 Dec 1847 - 27 Nov 1912 Part of Spanish North Africa
27 Nov 1912 - 07 Apr 1956 Subordinated to Spanish Morocco
10 Jun 1934 - 22 Feb 1968 Part of Plazas de Soberania (Strongholds
of Sovereignty), under Spanish Morocco to 1956
1956 - 1995 Part of Cádiz province
15 Mar 1995 - Autonomous city of Ceuta
30 Jul 2026 - Ceuta migrant crisis
Rulers of the Taifa of Ceuta
1061 - 1079 Suqut al-Bargawati
1083 - 1149 Qadi Ayyad
1249 - 1279 Abu'l Qasim
1279 - 1305 Abu Hatim Ahmad
1315 - 1323 Yahyah
1323 - 1327 Abu'l Qasim Muhammed
Mayors
1912 - 1913 José Alvarez Sanz
1913 - 1914 José Trujillo Zafra (1st time)
1914 Restituto Palacios Garrido
1914 - 1915 Demetrio Guillén Conde
1915 - 1917 José Trujillo Zafra (2nd time)
1917 - 1918 Baldomero Blond Llanos
1918 - 1919 Joaquín García de la Torre y Almenara
1919 - 1923 Isidoro Martínez Durán
1923 - 1927 Agustin Gómez Morato
1927 José García Benítez
1927 - 1931 José Rosende Martín
1923 Demetrio Casares Vázquez
1923 - 1923 Alvarez Arnanuy
1923 - 1924 Remigio González Lozana
1924 - 1926 Ricardo Rodríguez Macedo
1926 - 1927 Manuel Matres Toril
1927 - 1928 José García Benítez
1928 - 1931 José Rosende Martín
15 Apr - Jun 1931 Antonio López Sánchez-Prado (1st time)
Jun - Oct 1931 Manuel Olivencia Amor
13 Oct 1931 - 22 Jan 1932 Eduardo Pérez Ortiz
Jan 1932 - Sep 1933 David Valverde Soriano
Sep 1933 - Feb 1936 José Victori Goñalons
Feb - 18 Jul 1936 Antonio López Sánchez-Prado (2nd time)
1936 - 1937 José Tejero Ruiz
1937 - 1940 Fernando López Cantí
1940 - 1941 Jacinto Ochoa Ochoa
1941 - 1944 José Vidal Fernández
22 Feb 1944 - 15 May 1946 Francisco Ruiz Sánchez (1st time)
1946 - 1950 José Rojas Feigenspan
1950 Francisco López Bravo
1950 - 1957 Vicente García Arrazola
1957 - 1961 Francisco Ruiz Sánchez (2nd time)
1961 - 1967 Alberto Ibañez Trujillo
1967 - 1972 José Zurrón Rodríguez
1972 - 1978 Alfonso Sotelo Azorín
1978 - 1979 Ricardo Muñoz Rodriguez
1979 Eduardo Hernández Lobillo
1979 - 1981 Clemente Calvo Pecino
1981 - 1983 Ricardo Muñoz Rodríguez
1983 - 1985 Francisco Fraiz Armada (1st time)
1985 - 1987 Aurelio Puya Rivas
1987 - 1991 Fructuoso Miaja Sánchez ................. 1917-2009
1991 - 1994 Francisco Fraiz Armada (2nd time)
Mayor-Presidents
19 Jun 1995 - 24 Jul 1996 Basilio Fernández López
24 Jul 1996 - 26 Aug 1999 Jesús Cayetano Fortes Ramos
26 Aug 1999 - 07 Feb 2001 Antonio Sampietro Casarramona
07 Feb 2001 - Juan Jesús Vivas Lara