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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Seville, Córdoba, Spain, Mérida, Spain, Tarragona, Abdera, Spain, Empúries, Cueva de La Pasiega, Almuñécar, Ponferrada, Carmona, Spain, Cave of Altamira, Atapuerca Mountains, Clunia, Llíria, Numantia, Treasure of Guarrazar, Sagunt - Sagunto, Medina Azahara, Ses Païsses, Calatrava La Vieja, Dolmen de Viera, Iria Flavia, Italica, Siege of Numantia, Baelo Claudia, Aqüeducte de Les Ferreres, Zafarraya, Granada, Axlor, Casa de Pilatos, Los Millares, Juliobriga, History of Las Rozas, Acinipo, Cieza, Murcia, Sidrón Cave, Talaiot, Praileaitz Cave, Cueva de Menga, Naveta Des Tudons, Estaca de Bares Point, Cuevas de La Araña En Bicorp, Cueva de Los Casares, Sexi, Taula, Segeda, Amaya, Burgos, Naveta, List of Roman Places in Hispania, Torralba, Ambrona. Excerpt: Abdera ( , , Strabo ; , Ptol. ; , Ephor. ap. Steph. B. ) was an ancient seaport town on the south coast of Spain , between Malaca (now Málaga ) and Carthago Nova (now Cartagena ), in the district inhabited by the Bastuli .It was founded by the Carthaginians as a trading station, and after a period of decline became under the Romans one of the more important towns in the province of Hispania Baetica . It was situated on a hill above the modern Adra .Of its coins the most ancient bear the Phoenician inscription abdrt with the head of Heracles (Melkarth) and a tunny-fish ; those of Tiberius (who seems to have made the place a colonia ) show the chief temple of the town with two tunny-fish erect in the form of columns.References (URLs online) This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition , a publication now in the public domain . This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by William Smith (1856). Coordinates : 36°44N 3°01W / 36.733°N 3.017°W / 36.73...