Cartagena is a Spanish
Mediterranean city and naval
station in the southeast of
the Iberian Peninsula.
Cartagena has been the capital
of the Spanish Navy's Maritime
Department of the
Mediterranean since the
arrival of the Spanish
Bourbons in the eighteenth
century. As far back as the
sixteenth century it was one
of the mos
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Cartagena is a Spanish
Mediterranean city and naval
station in the southeast of
the Iberian Peninsula.
Cartagena has been the capital
of the Spanish Navy's Maritime
Department of the
Mediterranean since the
arrival of the Spanish
Bourbons in the eighteenth
century. As far back as the
sixteenth century it was one
of the most important naval
ports in Spain.

Cartagena was founded about
230 BC by Carthaginian general
Hasdrubal as Qart Hadast,
Punic for 'new city'.
Hasdrubal extended the newly
acquired Carthaginian empire
in Iberia by skillful
diplomacy, and consolidated it
by the foundation of Qart
Hadast in an excellent haven
as the capital of a new
province. Hannibal got silver
from the mines there to carry
on the war against Rome.

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