Cadiz as the sun sets

2022-12-02 10:47:39

Tony Shertila posted a photo:

Very little remains of the Phoenician language, but numismatic inscriptions record that they knew the site as a Gadir or Agadir (Phoenician: meaning "The Wall", "The Compound", or (by metonymy) "The Stronghold"
In Latin, the city was known as Gādēs and its Roman colony as Augusta Urbs Iulia Gaditana. In Arabic, the Latin name became Qādis from which the Spanish Cádiz derives.

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