Carthaginian Spain — the Barcid Domain in 218 B.C.

Carthaginian Spain — the Barcid Domain — Carthage.

The empire the Barcids built from nothing after 237 BC: a personal, army-backed dominion spanning southern and eastern Iberia, owing more to Hamilcar, Hasdrubal and Hannibal than to the Senate at Carthage. Its capital was Qart Hadasht — New Carthage — and its lifeblood the silver mines, which Polybius reports yielded the treasury 25,000 drachmae a day. Here Hannibal gathered the army that would cross the Alps.