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'HISPANIA: The Romans in Spain and Portugal'
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By: Michael B. Barry
Publisher: Andalus Press
Published: May 2022
Pages: 272
Categories: Humanities
Language: English
Available as: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9781838485900

The Phoenicians' most important city in the western Mediterranean was Carthage (very close to Tunis) in North Africa and then New Carthage (Now Cartagena) in south eastern Spain. By around 300 BC the Phoenicians in the eastern Mediterranean had lost control as a result of the expansion of the Greek empire under Alexander the Great. The descendants of the Phoenicians who had settled in the western Mediterranean became known as Carthaginians. Control of the Mediterranean countries in the 3rd century BC was divided therefore between the Romans in Italy, the Greeks in the east and the Carthaginians in North Africa and the east of Spain. The Romans invaded Spain in 218 BC at the same time that the Carthaginian leader Hannibal was marching down through northern Italy to attack Rome. The Carthaginians that had been left behind under the command of Hannibal's brother Hanno to guard Spain from an attack by the Romans were outnumbered 2 to 1 and were quickly defeated. However the Carthaginians soon recovered from this defeat and the war continued for another 13 years until 205 BC when the Romans finally defeated the Carthaginians in Spain and then three years later in North Africa.

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