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| THE ROMANS |
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Around year 216 a.C., the Carthaginian armies seize of the city. The rivalry of these with the Romans during the Second Punic War would cause that the Bética fell in being able of the Roman town as of year 206, a.C., after its victory in the battle of Ilipa. |
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| From then, the city, to which the Romans baptized with the name of Híspalis, would begin to be reconstruída, but giving priority to the first Roman establishment in the peninsula: Itálica, a city located to little Kilometers of Seville. Itálica and Híspalis maintain two personalities different: Seville is the commercial city and hispoano-Roman industrialist, whereas Itálica is a residential and purely Roman city. |
| But Híspalis does not begin to grow and to consider one of the main cities of the Bética until the year 49.a.C., when Julio Caesar equips it with a wall and he grants the statute to him of Roman colony. And, in spite of the shade that did Itálica to him, it was raising in importance until arriving to be recognized by Rome like the first city of Spain. |
| At the end of the Roman period, the Christianity gets to extend by all Hispania. They honor the Sevillian martyrs Santa Justa and Rufina, patrons of the city, who died martyred to refuse to adore to ídolo of Salambó. |
| In century V, with the Roman Empire in crisis, the invasions arrive from the germanic towns. In the 411 vandals they seized of the Bética and, under the orders of Gunderico, also they were appropriated Híspalis in the 426. These puebos did not leave the region until the 429, but the suevos do not take in taking their place, Réquila errands. The city was able to recover of these invasions, until in the middle of the century I SAW arrive the visigodos. Híspalis happened then to be called Spali. |
| Without a doubt, one of the most outstanding events of this stage of domination visigoda was the Christian revolt headed by Hermenegildo against its Leovigildo father, who surrounded the city, turning aside the course of the Guadalquivir river. It took it and it ordered the death of his son in year 583 to C. From this moment the splendor of the city mainly stayed in the cultural plane thanks to the work carried out by the bishops San Leandro and San Isidoro. |
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