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In Latin, the city was known as Gādēs and its Roman colony as Augusta Urbs Iulia Gaditana ('The August City of Julia of Cádiz'). In Arabic, the Latin name became Qādis (Arabic: قادس), from which the Spanish Cádiz derives. The Spanish demonym for people and things from Cádiz is gaditano. In English, the name is pronounced variously.
- Spain
- Phoenicians; traditionally claimed to be around 1100 BC
- 11 m (36 ft)
- Andalusia
Cádiz ( / kəˈdɪz / kə-DIZ, US also / ˈkeɪdɪz, ˈkæd -, ˈkɑːd -/ KAY-diz, KA (H)D-iz, Spanish: [ ˈkaðiθ]) is a city in Spain and the capital of the Province of Cádiz, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is located in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula off the Atlantic Ocean separated from neighbouring San Fernando by a narrow isthmus.
May 2, 2024 · Cádiz, city, capital, and principal seaport of Cádiz provincia (province) in the comunidad autónoma (autonomous community) of Andalusia, southwestern Spain. The city is situated on a long, narrow peninsula extending into the Gulf of Cádiz (an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Cádiz was part of Al-Andalus (Moorish Spain) until Alfonso X of Castile took it back into the Christian kingdoms. The Catholic Monarchs and the many discoveries of Spain during the XVth and XVIth centuries marked the history of modern Cádiz making it grow big anew.
1. How to Find the Meaning of a Latin Place Name. You’ve encountered a Latin place name and can’t find the meaning? When the regular dictionaries fail to give the modern equivivalent of a Latin place name, there are luckily several reference works dedicated to the subject.
The name Andalusia is derived from the Arabic word Al-Andalus (الأندلس), which in turn may be derived from the Vandals, the Goths or pre-Roman Iberian tribes. The toponym al-Andalus is first attested by inscriptions on coins minted in 716 by the new Muslim government of Iberia.
The Political Constitution of the Spanish Monarchy (Spanish: Constitución Política de la Monarquía Española), also known as the Constitution of Cádiz (Spanish: Constitución de Cádiz) and as La Pepa, was the first Constitution of Spain and one of the earliest codified constitutions in world history.
