Príncipe (Spanish: ''Barrio del Príncipe'', ''Barrio del Príncipe Alfonso'') is a working-class
neighborhood in the south of the
Spanish
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exclave city of
Ceuta
Ceuta (, , ; ar, سَبْتَة, Sabtah) is a Spanish autonomous city on the north coast of Africa.
Bordered by Morocco, it lies along the boundary between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It is one of several Spanish territorie ...
in northwest Africa. It has a majority
Muslim population.
It is linked to the centre of Ceuta by the N-352 highway, which also goes south to the border crossing with
Morocco
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.
Ceuta's University Hospital is in this neighbourhood.
The television series ''
El Príncipe'' is set in Principe.
As of 2015, there were about 12,000 residents, and almost all were Muslim.
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In tough El Príncipe, joblessness has youths vulnerable to radicalization
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In the 1990s the neighbourhood became a centre of drug trading. According to the Ceuta government, as of 2015, Principe receives 40% of the city's social aid budget. As of that year 80% of residents had no jobs.
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Geography of Ceuta
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