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The Battle off Carteia was a minor naval battle during the latter stages of Caesar's civil war won by the Caesarians led by Caesar's legate Gaius Didius against the Pompeians led by Publius Attius Varus.
The Battle of Carteia was a naval battle of the Second Punic War, fought between the navy of the Roman Republic and a Carthaginian fleet in 206 BC near the ancient city of Carteia in southern Spain. The Roman navy was commanded by Gaius Laelius and the Carthaginian navy by Adherbal. The battle resulted in a Roman victory.
Hanno had at his command 700 cavalry and 6,000 infantrymen, of whom 4,000 were Celtiberian warriors and the rest Africans. Lucius Marcius Septimus attacked the Carthaginian force and surrounded them on a hill.
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A coin of Carteia. Carteia (Ancient Greek: Καρτηίᾳ) [1] was a Phoenician and Roman town at the head of the Bay of Gibraltar in Spain.It was established at the most northerly point of the bay, next to the town of San Roque, about halfway between the modern cities of Algeciras and Gibraltar, overlooking the sea on elevated ground at the confluence of two rivers, nowadays called ...
The gens Carteia was a Roman family towards the end of the Republic. It is best remembered for a single individual, Lucius Carteius, a friend of Gaius Cassius Longinus , who was with Cassius in Syria in 43 BC.
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Carteia gets its name from the Phoenician god Melkartes or Melquart hence the name Mel-quarteya. This god was the fore runner of the Greek's Heracles and the Roman Hercules. It was these Phoenicians who invented the myth about falling over the edge of the world if you went past the Pillars of Hercules.