Historical place profile
Carteia/Calpe/Karpessos
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.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:256063
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:256063
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 36.185191, -5.409391
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
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.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 26 E5 Carteia/Calpe/Karpessos
Source and reuse
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Research path
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