Roman Seville

The arrival of the Carthaginians lead to the south of the Iberian Peninsula to become an arena of confrontation with Rome, the great power that challenged the hegemony in the Mediterranean. After the battle of Ilipa (two locations are being considered, Alcalá del Río or Carmona) in 206 BC, the Romans consolidated control of these territories.

The Roman historian Tito Livio wrote: "Under the direction and auspices of Scipio, were expelled from Hispania the Carthaginians in the tenth year of the beginning of the war and fifth after Scipio received the province and the army." This was the beginning of the history of The Roman Seville.

Scipio Africanus, as usual, left part of his army and established the wounded in a city which he called Italica, near Seville.