Ruins of House of the Peristyle, Greek colony, Empuries, Catalonia, Spain, c200-100 BC (1999). Empúries was an ancient Greek city on the Mediterranean coast. Emporion, meaning "trading place", was founded in 575 BC by Greeks from Phocaea. After the invasion of Gaul from Iberia by Hannibal the Carthaginian general in 218 BC, the city was occupied by the Romans.
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