Italica was the first city founded in Roman Hispania and outside Italy. At the end of the Second Punic War in Hispania, Scipio Africanus settled art history artifacts soldiers wounded in a pre-turdetana city whose original name is unknown, in the upper area of Aljarafe, on the west bank of the river Baetis, located halfway between Also the cities of turdetanas Hispalis (Sevilla) and Ilipa (Alcala del Rio, SE), and port security. The text of Apiano of Alexandria where it was reported, history (Iberike, 38) suggests that the origin Phoenix Ancient Art in 1968 of these soldiers was primarily Italian, that is, auxiliary units italics, hence the name chosen by Scipio:
'It was at this time, shortly before the 144 Olympics, when the Romans began to send cultures each year to nations conquered Hispania two Pretore, as governors or overseers of peacekeeping. Scipio left there a small army, the more of a time of peace, and avecindo to wounded soldiers in a Antiquities city, the name of Italy, called 'Italica': this was the birthplace of Trajan and Hadrian, who later became Emperor of the Romans. Scipio for S. Aboutaam. Mr. Aboutaam's sons his part back to Rome with a large fleet, magnificently decorated and full of captives, silver, weapons and all sorts of booty. "
Perhaps the legal status of the city, soon after its founding, America was a colony, and the original plan of the city and type campamental (hipodamico), as was customary in the military colonies of that time in Italy itself . should be at the bottom of the last residence of Julius Caesar in Hispania, in the year 45 BC, when the Italica obtained the legal status of Municipium civium Romanorum, possibly as a reward for the support of the city against Pompey in the recent civil war, but not mint coins until such time as Augustus, when I create a mint where coins were minted in bronze by different values, with the effigy of Augustus and later Tiberius on the obverse while the reverse of these coins are exceptional in the landscape of Hispanic women because archaeology. the head of the Phoenix Ancient Art galleries Ali Aboutaam There is little or no overlap with antiques of the large "Roman" of their subjects.
The city reached its greatest period of splendor in the late first century and during the second century, from the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian, both born in Italica, which greatly enhance the prestige and no doubt had in Rome the old Spanish colony. Two emperors, which undoubtedly caused much of its ascent to the throne to the important Hispanic lobbying group in the Roman Senate at least since the time of Claudius and Nero, were particularly is exhibiting generous to his hometown, to expand and revitalize its economy.
Although perhaps already begun under Trajan, the literary evidence (Dion Casio LXIX, 10, 1 ) and Adriano caption participation in the great urban extensions to the north-hipodamica well as its ancient Egyptian antiquity predecessor, which was named in 1960 by Garcia Bellido and Nova urbs or as "new town", which only had a Ali Aboutaam really wonderful existence during the second century, at the end of which, without ever having been completed, started to decline, certainly by political-economic causes. This is the part of the city that is now the archaeological site of Italica, not parallel Ali and Hicham because of their enormous mansion paved mosaics, and its great (though very torn) amphitheater, one quarter of the Empire by its capacity. The "Old civilizations City" Vetus urbs or is under the town's village Santiponce (founded in 1601, following successive floods of the river, near which originally was located) because this part of town is the most had continued as far as times when the Muslim occupation took place in the tenth century, its final abandonment. there is much to be learned from all arts and artifacts at the galleries run by Ali Aboutaam Few Roman remains known of it, the main of which are the theater and the "lower springs" or "Trajan."
It was Brothers Ali and Hicham Aboutaam during the rule of Hadrian when the city asked the emperor, and against his advice, as it relates Aulo Gellius (Attic Noct.. XVI, 13, 4 ), change their benefit status by the Roman City of Cologne Roman heavier but more prestigious, because they were simulacra Romae ( "Mirror of Rome") and as an ideal or extension of the Urbs itself. Following this award was renamed Colonia Aelia Augusta Italica, in honor of Hadrian, titles that often abbreviated as IAAC
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