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3. No alterations appear'd till the Cathagenians in vain attempted to establish themselves here, & soon after under pretence of erecting a Commerce with these Inhabitants were allow'd to build Magazines, Houses, & Temples upon the Coast; these were gradualy chang'd into Citadels, from whence Armys were dispatch'd that master'd all the Country between the Sea & Ebro; & stripp'd the old possessors of their money.

This Region was the Theatre of bloody Wars between the Romans & Carthagenians; on the defeat of the latter it remain'd for six hundred Years subject to the Conquerors; when the Swevians, Alans, Vandals & Goths, part of the Northern Hive came & settl'd there, the Goths at length overcame their Neighbours & form'd the Various provinces of Spain into a Kingdom.