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Colonia Iulia Ilici Augusta

Elx/Elche, El Baix Vinalopó, Alicante

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Colonia Iulia Ilici Augusta

Historical milestone · Elx/Elche, El Baix Vinalopó, Alicante

Image of Elx/Elche, not of the place itself.

Around the year 26 BC Augustus founded on the Elche plain a colony of veterans of the Cantabrian wars. Ilici struck its own coinage, enjoyed fiscal immunity and traded throughout the Mediterranean through its port, the present Santa Pola.

26 a. C.

Photo: Superchilum (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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