Príncipe (Spanish: ''Barrio del Príncipe'', ''Barrio del Príncipe Alfonso'') is a working-class
neighborhood
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in the south of the
Spanish
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exclave city of
Ceuta
Ceuta (, , ; ) is an Autonomous communities of Spain#Autonomous cities, autonomous city of Spain on the North African coast. Bordered by Morocco, it lies along the boundary between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Ceuta is one of th ...
in northwest Africa. It has a majority
Muslim
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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.
[Tieleman, Alex.]
In tough El Príncipe, joblessness has youths vulnerable to radicalization
" ''Al Jazeera
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''. June 28, 2015. Retrieved on August 3, 2016.
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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References
Geography of Ceuta
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