page_title: History of Seville
section_title: Modern Era
hierarchical_section_title: History of Seville / Modern Era
caption_attribution_description: English: Incluye a ambos lados relación de calles y situación en el plano y en la parte inferior relación de edificios e iglesias más notables. Escala expresada también en varas castellanas Orientado con flecha con el N. al NO. del plano
context_page_description: Seville has been one of the most important cities in the Iberian Peninsula since ancient times; the first settlers of the site have been identified with the Tartessian culture. The destruction of their settlement is attributed to the Carthaginians, giving way to the emergence of the Roman city of Hispalis, built very near the Roman colony of Itálica, which was only 9 km northwest of present-day Seville. Itálica, the birthplace of the Roman emperors Trajan and Hadrian, was founded in 206-205 BC. Itálica is well preserved and gives an impression of how Hispalis may have looked in the later Roman period. Its ruins are now an important tourist attraction. Under the rule of the Visigothic Kingdom, Hispalis housed the royal court on some occasions.
  In al-Andalus the city was first the seat of a kūra, or territory, of the Caliphate of Córdoba, then made capital of the Taifa of Seville, which was incorporated into the Christian Kingdom of Castile under Ferdinand III, who was first to be interred in the cathedral.
caption: Map of Seville in 1860
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