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First Fleet of the Mediterranean

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The fleet of the al-Muwaḥḥidūn caliphs at Marrakesh, sustained by tribute payments from the Italian maritime republics under Ya'qūb al-Manṣūr and command-coordinated from the imperial capital, established Moroccan naval supremacy in the western Mediterranean for two centuries. Our sultans inherit not only the docks at Salé, Asilah, and Larache but the doctrine of strategic centralization: fleets dispatched against single objectives at the order of Marrakesh, rather than the dispersed privateering that any coastal corsair captain could mount on his own. An imperial command tradition lets our navy operate as a coherent strategic instrument, which fragmented coastal corsair fleets could never be.

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