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Seville: History, Former Names & Timeline

A river port on the Guadalquivir that held the monopoly on trade with the Indies in the sixteenth century; American silver entered Europe here.

Map showing Seville in 1500Seville
Border map for 1500. See Europe in 1500.

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Former names of Seville

FromNameNote
200 BCHispalis
AD 712Išbīliya
1248Sevilla

Timeline of Seville

YearEvent
1248Castile retakes Seville
1503The Casa de Contratación monopolises trade with the Americas
1519Magellan's fleet sets out from Seville

Who ruled Seville

Derived from the border maps; each row runs until the next recorded border change.

PeriodState
500 BC–201 BCCarthaginian Empire
200 BC–101 BCRome
100 BC–2 BCRoman Republic
1 BC–299Roman Empire
300–399Rome (Maximian)
400–499Western Roman Empire
500–599Visigoths
600–699Eastern Roman Empire
700–799Umayyad Caliphate
800–999Emirate of Córdoba
1000–1099Caliphate of Córdoba
1100–1199Almoravid dynasty
1200–1299Almohad Caliphate
1300–1491Castile
1492–1599Castile
1600–todaySpain

Battles and sites near Seville

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