Yeah tbf the siege has only been going on for twenty years
That's at least closer to accurate. But a 25 year siege would've starved 99% of the people there to death, maybe ~23-24 years ago. Unless you can think of a way to feed the whole population with that tiny bit of land for a couple decades.
The siege of Ceuta lasted for more than thirty years.
I've never heard of that historic event (or the city itself, for that matter), so I looked it up:
Ceuta is a city on the north coast of Africa across the strait from Gibraltar. It's currently an autonomous city owned by Spain (and Morocco is apparently still pissed off about that).
The siege @Andrzej is apparently referring to happened from 1694 to 1727, with a brief interruption in 1720-1721 when defenders' reinforcements showed up, forced the attackers to retreat to Tétouan, tried to capture that city for a few months, and then gave up and left again.
Apparently, the reason it lasted so long without succeeding is that Ceuta was getting resupplied by sea. In other words, the lack of accompanying naval blockade made it kind of a shitty siege.
It was a siege though, just as the siege of Gaza is a siege
Yeah tbf the siege has only been going on for twenty years
That's at least closer to accurate. But a 25 year siege would've starved 99% of the people there to death, maybe ~23-24 years ago. Unless you can think of a way to feed the whole population with that tiny bit of land for a couple decades.
The siege of Ceuta lasted for more than thirty years.
I've never heard of that historic event (or the city itself, for that matter), so I looked it up:
Ceuta is a city on the north coast of Africa across the strait from Gibraltar. It's currently an autonomous city owned by Spain (and Morocco is apparently still pissed off about that).
The siege @Andrzej is apparently referring to happened from 1694 to 1727, with a brief interruption in 1720-1721 when defenders' reinforcements showed up, forced the attackers to retreat to Tétouan, tried to capture that city for a few months, and then gave up and left again.
Apparently, the reason it lasted so long without succeeding is that Ceuta was getting resupplied by sea. In other words, the lack of accompanying naval blockade made it kind of a shitty siege.
It was a siege though, just as the siege of Gaza is a siege