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Name: Sagunto

Type: Polity

Start: 449 BC

End: 219 BC

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Was a city-state or organized settlement of the Iberians, the indigenous population of the Iberian Peninsula.

Establishment

  • January 449 BC: During the 5th century BC, the Iberians built Sagunto, a walled settlement on the hill overseeing a plain.

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    1. Punic Wars

    Were a series of wars between 264 and 146 BC fought between Rome and Carthage. The wars ended with the Roman conquest of the Carthaginian Empire.

    1.1.Second Punic War

    Was the second of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean. It ended with a Roman victory and the territories of Carthage were reduced to its core territory in modern-day Tunisia.

    1.1.1.Spanish Front (Second Punic War)

    Was the Carthaginian military campaign in the Iberian Peninsula during the Second Punic War.

  • January 218 BC: Hannibal, with the taking of Sagunto and with the subsequent crossing, in arms, of the river Ebro, broke the treaties of 241 BC and 226 BC, creating the conditions for the outbreak of the Second Punic War.

    • Disestablishment

  • January 218 BC: Hannibal, with the taking of Sagunto and with the subsequent crossing, in arms, of the river Ebro, broke the treaties of 241 BC and 226 BC, creating the conditions for the outbreak of the Second Punic War.

    • Selected Sources

  • Appiano, Guerra annibalica, VII, 1, 3
  • Eutropio, Breviarium ab Urbe condita, III, 7
  • Polibio, III, 9-33

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