Seville
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- For other meanings, see Seville (disambiguation).
| Sevilla | |||||
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| Location | |||||
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| Coordinates : () Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) | |||||
| General information | |||||
| Native name | Sevilla (Spanish) | ||||
| Spanish name | Sevilla
<tr><td>Founded</td><td>8th-9th century BC</td></tr><tr><td>Postal code</td><td>41001-41080</td></tr><tr><td>Website</td><td>http://www.sevilla.org/</td></tr> | ||||
| Administration | |||||
| Country | Spain | ||||
| Autonomous Community | Andalucía | ||||
| Province | Sevilla | ||||
| Mayor | Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín (PSOE) | ||||
| Geography | |||||
| Land Area | 140 km² | ||||
| Altitude | 7 m AMSL | ||||
| Population | |||||
| Population | 704,154 (2005) | ||||
| Density | 5.029 hab./km² () | ||||
Seville (Spanish: Sevilla, see also different names) is the artistic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain, irrigated by the river Guadalquivir
(). It is the capital of Andalusia and of the province of Syhbgbevilla. The inhabitants of the city are known as Sevillanos (feminine form: Sevillanas). The population of the city of Seville proper was 704,154 as of 2005 (INE estimate). The population of the urban area was 1,043,000 as of 2000 estimates. Population of the metropolitan area (urban area plus satellite towns) was 1,317,098 as of 2005 (INE estimate), ranking as the fourth-largest metropolitan area of Spain.
[edit] History
Roman Hispalis (Template:Polytonic in Greek sources; and Hispal in some sources (Mela ii. 6, Sil. Ital. iii. 392), in the province of Hispania Baetica. Though Greeks and Romans repeated a founding myth connected with Heracles' visit to the Hesperides the historical site was occupied by the Tartessos in the 8th or 9th century BCE. Later it was a trading colony occupied by the Phoenicians and the Carthaginians, who destroyed the city in 216 BCE. In 206 BCE, Scipio Africanus founded Italica nearby, to settle his wounded veterans, and began the reconstruction of Hispalis. It was made a colony by Julius Caesar; and although an attempt seems to have been made to exalt the neighbouring colony of Baetis above it, the very site of which is now doubtful, it ranked, in Strabo's time, among the first cities of Turdetania, next after Corduba (modern Córdoba) and Gades (modern Cádiz); and afterwards even advanced in dignity, so that, in the time of Ptolemy, it had the title of metropolis, and under the Vandals and Goths it ranked above Corduba, and became the capital of Southern Spain. In the Roman Empire it was the seat of a conventus juridicus, and bore the titles of Julia Romula and Colonia Romulensis. Its ancient coins have been described and catalogued by Enrique Florez. (Strab. iii. pp. 141, 142; Hirt. Bell. Alex. 51, 56; Dion. Cass. xliii. 39; Plin. iii. 3; Itin. Ant. pp. 410, 413, 416; Geog. Rav. iv. 45; Philostr. Vit. Apoll. v. 3, 6; Auson. Clar. Urb. 8; Isidor. Etym. xv. 1; Inser. ap. Gruter, pp. 201, 257, Orelli, vol. ii. p. 396; Florez, Esp. S. vol. ix. pp. 89, 90; Coins ap. Florez, Med. de Esp. vol. ii. p. 543; Mionnet, vol. i. p. 24, Suppl. vol i. p. 42; Eckhel, vol. i. p. 28.)
