Megorashim
The Toshavim had been present in North Africa since ancient times, spoke the local languages (Arabic or Berber), and had traditions that were influenced by Maghrebi Islam.Of the 40,000 to 70,000 Jews[2] who left Spain in 1492 following the Alhambra decree, the Jewish Encyclopedia estimates that 32,000 reached the coast of North Africa; (20,000 in Morocco, 10,000 in Algeria[citation needed]).After 1391, the Megorashim had settled mainly in Algeria (Algiers and its adjacent cities, Tlemcen, Oran, Ténès, Béjaïa, Constantine[4][citation needed]), Tunisia (Tunis), and Morocco (Meknes, Fez, and Debdou, with the capture of Seville).They then moved to Mogador when the Alawite King Mohammed ben Abdallah invited the Jews to settle there and take care of relations with the Portuguese Empire.[8] With the Spanish protectorate in northern Morocco from the 19th century, we are witnessing the first reconciliation between Sephardis and Spaniards,[9] and many Jews from Tetuan settled in Gibraltar, Spain, and Latin America at the same time.