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![Warrior Stela from Bronze Age Iberia](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/7521.jpg?v=1599489905)
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Warrior Stela from Bronze Age Iberia
This stela is from Solana de Cabañas (Cabañas del Castillo, Cáceres), Spain and dates from the Late Bronze Age. It is made of slate, and it was unearthed in the late 19th century CE. This was the first specimen to be discovered in a series...
![Stela of Hernán Pérez VI from Bronze Age Iberia](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/7522.jpg?v=1599489905)
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Stela of Hernán Pérez VI from Bronze Age Iberia
This granite stela dates from the Early or Middle Bronze Age. It was discovered in Cáceres, Spain. (Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid)
![Kartli/Iberia Coins with a Cross & Altar](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/8215.jpg?v=1599507807)
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Kartli/Iberia Coins with a Cross & Altar
Silver. The weights range from 2,44 gr. to 3,23 gr. d= 26/27-29/30 mm. Obverse: Ohrmazd IV to the right. Legend in Pehlevi: hrm – aphzu (Ohrmazd Augustus). This is placed within onefold circle of the dots. Reverse: Cross on altar...
![Second Crusade](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/8043.jpg?v=1657849322)
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Second Crusade
The Second Crusade (1147-1149 CE) was a military campaign organised by the Pope and European nobles to recapture the city of Edessa in Mesopotamia which had fallen in 1144 CE to the Muslim Seljuk Turks. Despite an army of 60,000 and the presence...
![Reconquista](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/9300.jpg?v=1709756830)
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Reconquista
The Reconquista (Reconquest) or Iberian Crusades were military campaigns largely conducted between the 11th and 13th century CE to liberate southern Portuguese and Spanish territories, then known as al-Andalus, from the Muslim Moors who had...
![Interview: Numantia - Recreating the Ancient Iberian World](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/7501.jpg?v=1618758010)
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Interview: Numantia - Recreating the Ancient Iberian World
RECOTechnology is a small game-developer studio based in Madrid, Spain. Their latest video game - Numantia - allows players to explore the conflicts between the ancient Iberians and ancient Romans. James Blake Wiener of Ancient History Encyclopedia...
![Saguntum](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/5595.jpg?v=1714496044)
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Saguntum
Saguntum (modern Sagunto), located near Valencia in Spain, was an Iberian, and then Roman, settlement. The town's most dramatic moment in history came in the late 3rd century BCE when it was attacked by Hannibal, an act which famously sparked...
![Empuries](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/5555.jpg?v=1626312604)
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Empuries
Empuries (also Emporiae or Emporion) was a Greek and then Roman colony on the northeastern coast of Spain. Thriving as a local and Mediterranean trading centre, it prospered from the 6th century BCE to the 2nd century CE. Several times the...
![Etruscan Pottery](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/6281.jpg?v=1636549205)
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Etruscan Pottery
Etruscan pottery, produced over five centuries, was nothing if not varied. Indigenous wares such as the glossy black bucchero were made alongside red- and black-figure pottery imitating, yet modifying those produced in the Greek world. Geometric...
![Carthaginian Warfare](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/5304.jpg?v=1671705667)
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Carthaginian Warfare
Carthaginian warfare has been overshadowed by defeat to Rome in the Punic Wars, but for six centuries before that Carthage was remarkably successful in conquering lucrative territories in North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula, and Sicily. By...