Ilipa

Ilipa (now Alcalá del Río in the province of Seville, Andalusia ) was an Iberian town on the right bank of the lower Baetis ( Guadalquivir today ). The city was important for navigation and because of nearby silver mines and agriculture. Therefore, she was awarded the epithet Magna, the Great, possibly.

During the Second Punic War Scipio struck 206 BC, among other things, an relied on by Hannibal's brother Mago Carthaginian army at the Battle of Ilipa; this victory sealed the de facto end of the Carthaginian supremacy on the Iberian Peninsula.

In Visigoth times, the place is mentioned as a bishopric.