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Cádiz, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in Western Europe, was founded by the Phoenicians as a trading post. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In the 18th century, the Port in the Bay of Cádiz consolidated as the main harbour of mainland Spain, enjoying the virtual monopoly of trade with the Americas until 1778.
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.
Mar 31, 2017 · Considered to be the oldest inhabited city in Europe, Cádiz was found as ‘Gadir’ by the Phoenicians in 1.100 BC. The city has a long list of spectacular beaches and returning visitors rave about the tasty Cádiz seafood, amazing monuments and intriguing museums.
Cadiz was founded about 1,100 years B.C., which makes it not only the oldest city in Europe and but also probably in the western world. Cadiz enjoyed a long (over 3,000 years!) and illustrious history and has been home to many cultures and civilizations – Phoenicians, Greek, Visigoth, Roman, Moorish, Spanish, to name a few.
Traditionally said to be founded as Gadir (meaning “an enclosure”) by Phoenician merchants from Tyre as early as 1100 bce, it was occupied by the Carthaginians about 501 bce. Credence was given to the city’s Phoenician origins by discoveries in 1980 and earlier of Phoenician sarcophagi at two separate sites.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 9, 2020 · Over the years and geological evolution, the islands were transformed to what we know today as Cádiz, Puerto Real and San Fernando. Specifically, Cadiz was founded as Gadir on the island of Erytheia in 1104 BC, at the end of the world known at that time.
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According to tradition Cádiz was founded eighty years after the Troyan war, sometime during the XIIIth century bC, but the real founding date is probably closer to the XIth century bC when the Phoenicians, in their quest to discover new horizons and conquer new places to foster trade conducted them up till Iberian shores.
