Phoenician and Carthaginian
Malaka
Today: Málaga, Spain
- Years
- 800 BCE–206 BCE
- Role
- Tyrian colony of the harbour below Gibralfaro
One of the colonies the Phoenicians of Tyre founded from the 8th century BCE, over an earlier Bastetan settlement, with good anchorage below Mount Gibralfaro and silver and copper close by. It lived on fishing, on purple dye and on salting, and struck its own coin. By the 6th century BCE it was a city of the first rank, with pottery arriving from Rhodes, Samos, Chios, Athens and Etruria, and about 573 BCE it passed under Carthaginian rule.
What to see today
- Muralla fenicia de Málaga (Muralla feno-púnica de Mlk): Walls, 4th to 3rd century BCE
- Yacimiento del Cerro del Villar (Cerro del Villar): Archaeological site, c. 900 to 584 BCE