There is no doubt about the centuries-long mutual need and dependence that has existed between the Andalusian coast and the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts of Morocco. The relationship between the two countries has not always been easy, though, as hostilities (such as fighting around Spanish presidios and corsair confrontations) led some to believe, unjustifiably, that violence was the sole feature of Spanish-Moroccan relations. As argued in the text, political and economic cooperation was always possible between the two sides. The active trade between the Bay of Cadiz and the Moroccan Atlantic ports throughout the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries demonstrates this.
Cadiz, Tangier, Morocco, Spain, Trade Modern Age.