CLUES
- This city was built as a fortified colony on the Atlantic coast in the early 16th century.
- It is one of the first settlements Portuguese explorers created in Africa on the route to India.
- Among the original surviving buildings is the Church of the Assumption.
- The city has a large cistern, which was featured in a 1951 movie production of Shakespeare’s Othello.
ANSWER The Portuguese fortification of Mazagan, now part of the city of El Jadida, Morocco
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