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Naval Station Rota, also known as NAVSTA Rota (IATA: ROZ, ICAO: LERT) (Spanish: Base Naval de Rota), is a Spanish-U.S. naval base commanded by a Spanish rear admiral. [2] Located in Rota in the Province of Cádiz, NAVSTA Rota is the largest American military community in Spain, housing U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps personnel.
- History of Cadiz City
- Phoenician & Carthaginian
- Roman
- Visigoth and Moorish
- Reconquest
- 19th Century
- Modern History
by Saskia Mier Cadiz is believed to be the oldest city still standing in Europe. Its history is marked by its strategic military and commercial location on the Atlantic Ocean and at the entrance to a large sheltered bay. The settlement was founded by Phoenicians from Tyre (modern day Lebanon) following the Trojan War in 1.104 BC.
It was one of the oldest Phoenician settlements in the west, then known as Gadir, trading Baltic amber, Cornish tin, Spanish from Rio Tinto and other locations in Southern Iberia, and later trading with Tartessus. The Phoenicians established a port in the 7th century BC and foundations of defensive walls from this period have been discovered. At th...
As part of the Roman struggle against Carthage, the Romans invaded the Iberian peninsula in 206 BC. Scipio Africanus was victorious at Alcalá del Rionear Hispalis (present-day Seville). His army crushed the resistance of the native Iberians and soon transformed Betis (Andalucia) into one of Rome's richest and best organised colonies. Cadiz became R...
The big open city style slowly gave way to a smaller walled city, common in style in the Middle Ages. Desperate by economic necessity, many of these former Gades inhabitants were forced to renounce basic rights to receive protection from the large landowners and leave for inland towns. The city was conquered by the Byzantines in 522 AD, by the Visi...
The reconquest of Cádiz was part of the reconquest of the Guadalquivir area (1243-1262). The Moorish Benimerín Sultanat were ousted by the Crown of Castile in 1264. The arrival of King Alfonso X in Cádiz lead to a resurgence of the city. Among the privileges granted by the Castilian Monarch were alfoz, (tax benefits), the concession of the title of...
In 1805 the prelude to the Battle of Trafalgarsaw Napoleons Admiral Villeneuve leave northern Spain for Brest in Brittany but later changed course southwards. On 20th August 1805, he led thirty-nine Franco/Spanish Man o' War ships past four British ships and into the Bay of Cadiz. Napoleon directed Villeneuve to leave Cadiz for Toulon at the first ...
In recent history, it is worth highlighting the importance of the city during the Spanish Civil War as a support base for the Republican side. On evening of 14 August 1947 there was an explosion in a Navy ammunition depot located inside the Underwater Defences Base which stored 1,565 underwater mines, 596 depth charges and 41 torpedoes. The materia...
The city of Gadir flourishes as a Roman naval base in the years to come while the war ends in Carthaginian defeat. During Rome's early empire period, Gadir, or Gades in Latin, becomes Augusta Urbs Iulia Gaditana ('The August City of Julia of Cadiz').
1241 – Roman Catholic Diocese of Cádiz established. [5] 1262 – Cádiz taken by Alfonso X of Castile. [3] 1492 – Discovery of America renewed its prosperity. [3] 1587 – Spanish fleet attacked and Cádiz raided by Sir Francis Drake. [3] 1596 – Capture of Cádiz by English and Dutch forces; city sacked.
His army crushed the resistance of the native Iberians and soon transformed Betis (Andalucia) into one of Rome's richest and best organised colonies. Cadiz became Roman in 200 BC. Roman galleys sailed up its main river, now called the Guadalquivir, as far as Cordoba, where they took on board amphorae of olive oil and wine for exportation to Rome.
Cadiz proved an ideal location for allied cooperation. It was besieged for thirty months, far longer than any other city would have to endure, and was never taken. Cadiz, along with Andalusia, served as a source of strategic consumption of-the French Army in the Peninsula, and contributed directly, to the loss of Spain for the French. 14.
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Oct 22, 2021 · Felipe Benítez Reyes, a 61-year-old native of Rota, in Spain’s southern Andalusia region, was not even born when this rural outcrop on the Atlantic coast of Cádiz became a joint military...
