Tartessos, Pre-Roman civilization in Spain
Tartessos was a semi-mythical harbor city and the surrounding culture on the south coast of Iberia, at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River.
It was stacked with wealth from mining which allowed it to flourish during the 1st millennium BC.
The civilization of Tartessos was heavily influenced by Phoenicians from the 8th century BC onwards.
The Tartessian language is the extinct Paleohispanic language of inscriptions, mainly known from coinage.
The first urban centers developed here in the Late Bronze Age.
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