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Cartagena is a municipality of the Region of Murcia (Spain).Cartagena was founded around the year 227 adC by the Carthaginian general Asdrúbal the Beautiful one with the name of Qart Hadasth (New City). However, there are indications that Phoenicians arrived now to costs Spanish in the century VIII adC and it is believed that it has more than enough the century V adC the mastienos that Mastia would be founded arrived, the capital of the tribe, what today is the hill of the Brandish. News of Mastia appear in a called work he/she Prays Marine, of the Latin poet Avieno, and also in the treaty signed between Carthage and Rome in the year 348 adC (Mastia Tarseion). Qart Hadasth was the main city of the Carthaginians in Spain, and of her Aníbal left in its celebrated expedition to Italy that would take him/her to cross Alps, when beginning the Segunda Guerra Púnica in the year 218 adC. The Roman general Escipión Cartagena took in the year 209 adC, being from then on Roman possession with the name of Carthago Nova, and one of the Roman most important cities in Hispania.
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