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Diocese Of Castulo
Castulo (Latin: ''Castulo''; Iberian language, Iberian: ''Kastilo'') was an Iberian peninsula, Iberian town and bishopric (now Latin titular see located in the Andalusian Jaén (Spanish province), province of Jaén, in south-central Spain, near modern Linares, Jaén, Linares. History Evidence of human presence since the Neolithic period has been found there. It was the seat of the Oretani, an Iberians, Iberian tribe which settled in the vicinity in the north of the Guadalquivir River beginning in the sixth century BC. According to tradition, a local princess named Himilce married Hannibal, gained the alliance of the city with the Carthaginian Empire. In 211 BC, Castulo was the site of Hasdrubal Barca's crushing Battle of the Upper Baetis, victory over the Roman army with a force of roughly 40,000 Carthaginian troops plus local Iberian mercenaries. Thereafter Roman Republic, the Romans made a pact with the residents of city — who then betrayed the Carthaginians — and they ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the Roman Republic it became the dominant language in the Italian region and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. Even after the fall of Western Rome, Latin remained the common language of international communication, science, scholarship and academia in Europe until well into the 18th century, when other regional vernaculars (including its own descendants, the Romance languages) supplanted it in common academic and political usage, and it eventually became a dead language in the modern linguistic definition. Latin is a highly inflected language, with three distinct genders (masculine, feminine, and neuter), six or seven noun cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, and vocative), five declensions, four verb conjuga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
