Jaén, Spain
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Jaén is a municipality of Spain and the capital of the province of Jaén, in the autonomous community of Andalusia.
Image: Parador de Jaén 5
Image: Jaén Catedral de la Asunción VPSM 20110919 (cropped)
Image: Jaén Palacio de Villardompardo edited
Image: Baños Árabes de Jaén (Hamman al Walad). Sala fría (cropped)
Scipio Africanus
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Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus was a Roman general and statesman, most notable as one of the main architects of Rome's victory against Carthage in the Second Punic War. Often regarded as one of the greatest military commanders and strategists of all time, his greatest military achievement was the defeat of Hannibal at the Battle of Zama in 202 BC. This victory in Africa earned him the honorific epithet Africanus, literally meaning "the African", but meant to be understood as a conqueror of Africa.
A Carthaginian coin depicting Hasdrubal Barca (245–207 BC), one of Hannibal's younger brothers, wearing a diadem
Bronze bust dated mid-first century BC, formerly identified as Scipio Africanus, now thought to portray a priest of Isis
The entrance to the Tomb of the Scipios