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Belchite
Belchite is a municipality and town in the province of Zaragoza, Spain, about 40 km southeast of Zaragoza. It is the capital of Campo de Belchite comarca (administrative region) and is located in a plain surrounded by low hills, the highest of which is Lobo.
Seseña
Seseña is a municipality of Spain located in the province of Toledo, Castilla–La Mancha. It is part of La Sagra comarca. As of 1 January 2020, the municipality has a population of 27,066.
Numantia
Numantia () is an ancient Celtiberian settlement, whose remains are located on a hill known as Cerro de la Muela in the current municipality of Garray (Soria), Spain.
Madinat Al-Zahra
archeological site of Moorish palace in Spain
Italica
Italica () was an ancient Roman city in Hispania; its site is close to the town of Santiponce in the province of Seville, Spain. It was founded in 206 BC by Roman general Scipio as a colonia for his Italic veterans and named after them. Italica later grew attracting new migrants from the Italian peninsula and also with the children of Roman soldiers and native women. Among the Italic settlers were a branch of the gens Ulpia from the Umbrian city of Tuder and a branch of the gens Aelia from the city of Hadria, either co-founders of the town or later migrants who arrived at an unknown time; the
Empúries
Empúries ( ) was an ancient Greek city on the Mediterranean coast of Catalonia, Spain. Empúries is also known by its Spanish name, Ampurias ( ). The city Ἐμπόριον (, Emporion, meaning "trading place", cf. emporion) was founded in 575 BC by Greeks from Phocaea. The invasion of Gaul from Iberia by Hannibal the Carthaginian general in 218 BC, prompted the Romans to occupy the city (Latin: ), thus initiating the Roman conquest of Hispania. In the Early Middle Ages, the city's exposed coastal position left it open to marauders and it was abandoned.
Reccopolis
Reccopolis (; ), is an archaeological site located near Zorita de los Canes, a small village in the province of Guadalajara, Spain. It represents one of the Visigoth cities founded in Iberia during the post-Roman period.
Baelo Claudia
cultural property in Tarifa, Spain
Calatrava la Vieja
castle
Clunia
Clunia (full name Colonia Clunia Sulpicia) was an ancient Roman city. Its remains are located on Alto de Castro, at more than 1000 metres above sea level, between the villages of Peñalba de Castro and Coruña del Conde, 2 km away from the latter, in the province of Burgos in Spain. It was one of the most important Roman cities of the northern half of Hispania and, from the 1st century BC, served as the capital of a conventus iuridici in the province Hispania Tarraconensis, called Conventus Cluniensis. It was located on the road that led from Caesaraugusta (Zaragoza) to Asturica August
Abdera
ancient Carthaginian and Roman port in modern-day Spain
Juliobriga
thumb|right|280px|Partial view of the house of mosaics, Juliobriga Juliobriga (, , ) was the most important urban centre in Roman Cantabria, as stated by numerous Latin authors including Pliny the Elder. The site has traditionally been identified with ruins in the village of Retortillo (Cantabria) and its Villafría district, in the municipality of Campoo de Enmedio.
Acinipo
Acinipo was a city about 20 kilometers from Ronda, in the Spanish province of Málaga, believed to have been founded by retired soldiers from the Roman legions more than 2,000 years ago. The remaining ruins include a Roman theater still in use today. It is sometimes referred to as Ronda la Vieja (Old Ronda) despite the fact that Acinipo and Arunda (the original settlement of Ronda) co-existed for centuries.
Lucentum
Lucentum (, Loúkenton), called Lucentia by Pomponius Mela, is the Roman predecessor of the city of Alicante, Spain. Particularly, it refers to the archaeological site in which the remains of this ancient settlement lie, at a place known as El Tossal de Manises, in the neighborhood of Albufereta.
Todoque
thumb|250px|Panorama of Todoque in 2006 Todoque is a ghost town belonging to the municipality of Los Llanos de Aridane, located in the southwest of the island of La Palma, Canary Islands. Its main neighborhoods were Todoque, Los Pasitos and Todoque de Arriba. The town was first badly damaged and many buildings destroyed by the Cumbre Vieja volcano eruption in September 2021, which ended up engulfing it entirely.
Ses Païsses
archaeological site
Arriaga
locality
Iruña-Veleia
350px|thumb|right|Location of Veleia and other Roman cities in the context of ancient Basque tribes and the modern Basque Country (historical territory)|Basque Country
Torre d'en Galmés
archaeological site
Pollentia
archaeological site
Tiermes
thumb|View of rock-cut houses and surroundings
Oiasso
thumb|Current view of the mouth of the Bidasoa. thumb|Easo and Easo prom. in the lower left corner of this 1578 map of Gaul according to Ptolemy. thumb|Oeaso near the left extreme of Gallia in this old map or Roman Hispania. Oiasso, Oiasona or Oiarso was a Vascon Roman (Civitas) town located on the left bank of the Bidasoa estuary in the Bay of Biscay (current Spain). Archaeological evidence unearthed recently pinpoints the core area of Oiasso in the old quarter of Irun, Gipuzkoa, by the Spanish-French border, where harbour and bath remains have been discovered. However, two other focuses in C
Escó
thumb|right|Escó Escó, or in local Aragonese Esco, is an almost deserted village in the region of Jacetania, province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain, located next to the Yesa Reservoir.
Menace
ancient Greek οr Phoenician colony in Andalusia near Malaga
Segeda
thumb Segeda is an ancient settlement, between today's Belmonte de Gracián and Mara in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. Originally it was a Celtiberian town, whose inhabitants, the Belli, gave it the name Sekeida or Sekeiza.
Capocorb Vell
archaeological site
Castell de la Fosca
Iron age settlement in Catalonia (Spain)
Acci
Acci () was an ancient inland city of Hispania Tarraconensis, on the borders of Baetica. Under the Romans, and with the Jus Latinum, it was a colony with the full name of Colonia Julia Gemella Accitana. Its coins are numerous, bearing the heads of Augustus, Tiberius, Germanicus, Drusus, and Caligula, and the ensigns of the legions iii. and vi., from which it was colonized by Julius Caesar or Augustus, and from which it derived the name of Gemella. According to Macrobius, Mars was worshipped here with his head surrounded with the sun's rays, under the name of Netos. Such an emblem is seen on th
Cenarbe
Cenarbe is an abandoned agricultural and livestock village. The locality belongs to the Spanish municipality of Villanúa (Huesca, Aragón). It was located at 1200 meters above sea level. Toponymic with origin in the old Basque Azenari-be, soil of foxes, the suffix -be (soil, lower part) would refer to the situation of the village in a small plain at the foot of Mount Vacún 2,114 meters high.
Bocchoris
archaeological site in Balearic Islands, Spain