Carteia/Calpe/Karpessos

settlement · 750 BC – 640 AD

A Phoenician and Roman town in Spain located on the Bay of Gibraltar. The site played a strategic role in the Punic Wars, and was given the rights of a Latin colony in 171 BC.

Coordinates

36.18519, -5.40939

Also known as

Calpe (la), Calpe (la), Carteia, Kalpia, Karpeia, Karpessos, Karpia

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico (Andalucía) · Open data, Junta de Andalucía
  Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico, Junta de Andalucía
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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