Guadalquivir
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The Guadalquivir is the fifth-longest river in the Iberian Peninsula and the second-longest river with its entire length in Spain. The Guadalquivir is the only major navigable river in Spain. Currentl
The Guadalquivir passing near Almodóvar del Río
Birth of the Guadalquivir
The Torre del Oro by David Roberts, 1833
1892 flood in Seville
Tartessos
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Tartessos is, as defined by archaeological discoveries, a historical civilization settled in the southern Iberian Peninsula from about the late Bronze Age until the 5th century BC. It had a writing sy
Guadalquivir
…names for the Guadalquivir in Classical and pre-Classical times. According to Titus Livius (Livy), The History of Rome, Book 28, the native people of Tartessians or Turdetanians called the river by two names: Certis (Kertis) and Rherkēs (Ῥέρκης). Greek geographers sometimes called it "the river of Tartessos…
Tartessos, circa 500 BC
Tartessian winged feline statue at the Getty Villa
Cancho Roano archaeological site located in Zalamea de la Serena, Extremadura
Treasure of El Carambolo, exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of Seville