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Title: Ceuta
Original Title: Ceuta
Volume and Page: Vol. 2 (1752), p. 871
Author: Unknown
Translator: Timothy Cleary [graduate, University of Leeds]
Subject terms:
Geography
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Citation (MLA): "Ceuta." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Timothy Cleary. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2006. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.555>. Trans. of "Ceuta," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 2. Paris, 1752.
Citation (Chicago): "Ceuta." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Timothy Cleary. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0000.555 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Ceuta," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 2:871 (Paris, 1752).

Ceuta, African fort town, on the Barbary Coast, in the kingdom of Fez, in the Hasbate province, belonging to the Spanish. The town was under siege by the Moors for over fifty years. Long. 17, 10, lat. 33, 36.