Ilipa

Ilipa (now Alcalá del Río in the province of Seville in the Andalusia region ) was an Iberian city ​​on the right bank of the Lower Baetis (now Guadalquivir ). The city was important for shipping as well as the nearby silver mines and agriculture. That is why it was given the nickname Magna , the great one.

During the Second Punic War , Scipio defeated 206 BC. A Carthaginian army led by Hannibal's brother Mago , among others, in the battle of Ilipa ; this victory de facto sealed the end of Carthaginian domination on the Iberian Peninsula .

In Visigoth times the place is mentioned as a diocese .

literature

• Pedro Barceló : Ilipa. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 5, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01475-4 , Sp. 936.

Remarks

1. ^ Strabo 3, p. 142; CIL 2, 1085
2. ^ Claudius Ptolemy 2, 4, 10.
3. ↑ Polybios 11, 20ff .; Titus Livius 28, 12ff.

Coordinates: 37 ° 31 ′ 6 "  N , 5 ° 58 ′ 42"  W.