Roman Hispania
Today: Mértola, Portugal
A Tartessian or Phoenician colony first and a Carthaginian one after, it passed to Rome at the end of the 2nd century BCE, when its people were counted among the Turduli. Augustus raised it to a municipium, which is where the name Myrtilis Iulia comes from. Its Roman fabric is today largely reused in the castle and kept in the town museum.
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