Colonization Area in 218 B.C.

Colonization Area — Carthage › Carthaginian Spain — the Barcid Domain.

The directly administered core of Barcid Spain — the silver-bearing south-east around New Carthage and the Baetican coast, settled, taxed and garrisoned as the productive heartland of the war-empire. Here lay the great mines, the mint that struck the Barcid silver, and the towns that fed and armed Hannibal’s host.