Hamilcar Barca
The name "Córdoba" has attracted a number of fanciful explanations. One is that the Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca named the city "Kart-Juba", meaning "the City of Juba," a Numidian commander who had died in a battle nearby. Another, suggested in 1799 by José Antonio Conde, is that the name comes from a Phoenician-Punic word "qrt ṭwbh" meaning 'good town'. After the Roman conquest, the town's name was Latinised as "Corduba".