Information about Carpia
Carpia was an Iberian city which is said to be the site of the ancient city Tartessos, or the refoundation of the sunken city.
Geography
History
Pausanias, a Greek traveller and geographer, wrote of a connection between Tartessos and Carpia after visiting Elis:- "They say that Tartessus is a river in the land of the Iberians, running down into the sea by two mouths, and that between these two mouths lies a city of the same name. The river, which is the largest in Iberia, and tidal, those of a later day called Baetis, and there are some who think that Tartessus was the ancient name of Carpia, a city of the Iberians."
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The name Iberia refers to two distinct regions of the old world:
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- The Iberian Peninsula, in Southwest Europe, location of modern-day Spain and Portugal, home to the pre-Roman Iberians. (As a province of the Roman empire it was named Hispania.
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Tartessos (also Tartessus) was a harbor city on the south coast of the Iberian peninsula (in modern Andalusia, Spain), at the mouth of the Guadalquivir river. It was mentioned by Herodotus,[1] Strabo[2] in Pliny's Natural History.
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Pausanias (Greek: Παυσανίας) was a Greek traveller and geographer of the 2nd century A.D., who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius.
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Elis, or Eleia (Greek, Modern: Ήλιδα Ilida, Ancient/Katharevousa: Ἦλις, also Ēlis, Doric: Ἆλις
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Guadalquivir
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Arganthonios (Argantonio in Spanish) was the most important king of ancient Tartessos (in Andalusia, southern Spain).
The name Arganthonios derives from the Etruscan name "arcnti". To the Cempsi (neighboring Celts of southern Portugal) "argan" meant silver.
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The name Arganthonios derives from the Etruscan name "arcnti". To the Cempsi (neighboring Celts of southern Portugal) "argan" meant silver.
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Tartessian language is a pre-Roman language once spoken in southern Spain and now extinct. It is seemingly unrelated to all other languages, including the Indo-European and Iberian language families, and it is therefore a language isolate.
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Spanish mythology would encompass all the sacred myths of the cultures in the region of Spain. They include Galician mythology, Asturian mythology, Cantabrian mythology, Catalan mythology and Basque mythology.
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