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Numancia Battalion '' (c.1582), play by Cervantes about the siege
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Numancia may refer to: ;Places *Numancia, Spanish spelling of the ancient Celtiberian city of Numantia, near modern Soria, Spain *Numancia de la Sagra, a town in Toledo, Spain *Numancia (Madrid), a ward of Madrid, Spain *Numancia, Aklan, a town in the Philippines ;Ships * Spanish ironclad ''Numancia'', the first ironclad warship to circumnavigate the Earth *, modern Spanish frigate ;Other *CD Numancia, a professional football club in Spain See also *Siege of Numantia (134–33 BC), Roman siege of the Celtiberian city *''The Siege of Numantia ''The Siege of Numantia'' () is a tragedy by Miguel de Cervantes set at the siege of Numantia, captured and razed by Scipio Aemilianus in 133 BC. The play is divided into four acts, (''jornadas'', or "days"). The dialogue is sometimes in terce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Numantia
Numantia ( es, Numancia) is an ancient Celtiberian settlement, whose remains are located on a hill known as Cerro de la Muela in the current municipality of Garray (Soria), Spain. Numantia is famous for its role in the Celtiberian Wars. In 153 BC, Numantia experienced its first serious conflict with Rome. After twenty years of hostilities, in 133 BC the Roman Senate gave Scipio Aemilianus Africanus the task of destroying Numantia. He laid siege to the city, erecting a nine-kilometre fence supported by towers, moats, impaling rods, and other devices. After 13 months of siege, the Numantians decided to burn the city before surrendering. Location The nearest settlement to the ruins of Numantia is the village of Garray in the province of Soria. Garray has grown up next to a bridge across the Duero. It is only north the small city of Soria, capital of the province. Early history of the site Numantia was an Iron Age hill fort (in Roman terminology an ''oppidum''), which control ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soria
Soria () is a municipality and a Spanish city, located on the Douro river in the east of the autonomous community of Castile and León and capital of the province of Soria. Its population is 38,881 (INE, 2017), 43.7% of the provincial population. The municipality has a surface area of 271,77 km2, with a density of 144.97 inhabitants/km2. Situated at about 1065 metres above sea level, Soria is the second highest provincial capital in Spain. Although there are remains of settlements from the Iron Age and Celtiberian times, Soria itself enters history with its repopulation between 1109 and 1114, by the Aragonese king Alfonso I the Battler. A strategic enclave due to the struggles for territory between the kingdoms of Castile, Navarre and Aragon, Soria became part of Castile definitively in 1134, during the reign of Alfonso VII. Alfonso VIII was born in Soria, and Alfonso X had his court established when he received the offer to the throne of the Holy Roman Empire. In Soria, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Numancia De La Sagra
Numancia de la Sagra is a municipality located in the province of Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2021 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 5,170 inhabitants. Originally named Azaña (from medieval Latin ''Façania''), it was captured by the Numancia regiment in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War, and was renamed by the Francoist regime to remove the association with the Republican president Manuel Azaña Manuel Azaña Díaz (; 10 January 1880 – 3 November 1940) was a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1933 and 1936), organizer of the Popular Front in 1935 and the last President of the Repu .... References Municipalities in the Province of Toledo {{CastileLaMancha-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Numancia (Madrid)
Numancia is an administrative neighborhood (''barrio'') of Madrid belonging to the district of Puente de Vallecas Puente de Vallecas (''Bridge of Vallecas'') is one of the 21 districts of the city of Madrid, Spain. It forms, with the district of Villa de Vallecas, the geographical area of Vallecas. Geography Subdivision The district is administratively divid .... It has an area of . As of 1 March 2020, it has a population of 48,815. References {{coord, 40, 24, 3, N, 3, 39, 47, W, type:city(150000)_region:ES, display=title Wards of Madrid Puente de Vallecas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Numancia, Aklan
Numancia, officially the Municipality of Numancia ( Aklanon: ''Banwa it Numancia''; Hiligaynon: ''Banwa sang Numancia''; tl, Bayan ng Numancia), is a 4th class municipality in the province of Aklan, Philippines. Because of its proximity to the Capital Town of Kalibo, majority of its baranggays are classified as urbanized making the municipality the second most densely populated municipality in the province with 1,200 inhabitants per square kilometres. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 35,693 people. Numancia is bounded on the east by Kalibo, the north by the Sibuyan Sea, the west by Makato, and the south by Lezo. History The original name of Numancia is ''Majanos''. The name Majanos, of Malayan in origin, could mean "lowland" for this is the only town in the Province of Aklan that has no highland or even a small hill. From Numancia one can view the mountain of Majaas with its peak shaped like a ''sarok'' or ''sadok''. The name ''Madyaas'' could have been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Ironclad Numancia
The Spanish ironclad ''Numancia'' was an armored frigate bought from France during the 1860s for service with the Royal Spanish Navy (). The name was derived from the Siege of Numantia, in which Roman expansion in the Iberian Peninsula was resisted. She was the first ironclad to circumnavigate the Earth. She saw service in the Chincha Islands War and Cantonal Revolution. Design and description ''Numancia'' was long at the waterline, had a beam of and a draft of .de Saint Humber, p. 23 She displaced and was fitted with a ram bow.Silverstone, p. 388 Her crew consisted of 561 officers and enlisted men. The ship was fitted with a pair of horizontal-return connecting-rod steam engines from her builder that drove one propeller shaft using steam provided by eight cylindrical boilers.de Saint Hubert, pp. 22–23 The engines were rated at a total of 1,000 nominal horsepower or and gave ''Numancia'' a speed of The ironclad carried a maximum of of coalLyon, p. 380 that gave her a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CD Numancia
Club Deportivo Numancia de Soria, S.A.D. is a Spanish football club in Soria, in the autonomous community of Castile and León. Founded on 9 April 1945, it plays in Primera División RFEF – Group 2, holding home games at ''Nuevo Estadio Los Pajaritos''. Besides football it had other departments in sports, such as volleyball, women's handball, and rhythmic gymnastics. History The club was founded on 9 April 1945. Numancia was named after the ancient Celtiberian town of Numantia, near where Soria would be later founded. Having spent a long time in the ''Tercera División'', the club made consistent progress, reaching the first division on three occasions: 1999, 2004 and 2008. The club became first widely known in Spain in 1995–96, while still playing at the third level, for its extraordinary run in the Spanish Cup, eliminating three top flight clubs ( Real Sociedad, Racing de Santander and Sporting de Gijón) and only being knocked out in the quarter-finals by Barc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siege Of Numantia
The Celtiberian oppidum of Numantia was attacked more than once by Roman forces, but the Siege of Numantia refers to the culminating and pacifying action of the long-running Numantine War between the forces of the Roman Republic and those of the native population of Hispania Citerior. The Numantine War was the third of the Celtiberian Wars and it broke out in 143 BC. A decade later, in 133 BC, the Roman general and hero of the Third Punic War, Scipio Aemilianus Africanus, subjugated Numantia, the chief Celtiberian city. Roman preparation In late 135 BC, the Roman Senate reappointed Scipio consul on popular demand and sent him to Hispania to finish what lesser generals had failed to complete. Scipio found morale low among the troops stationed in Iberia. The chance of plunder being low, there were few enticements to enlistment. Scipio nevertheless raised an army of 20,000 with 40,000 allied and mercenary troops, especially Numidian cavalry led by Jugurtha. The troops were trained ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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