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The history of Barcelona stretches back well over 2000 years to its origins as an Iberian village named ''Barkeno''. Its easily defensible location on the coastal plain between the Collserola ridge (512 m) and the Mediterranean sea, the coastal route between central Europe and the rest of the Iberian peninsula, has ensured its continued importance, if not always preeminence, throughout the ages. Barcelona is currently a city of 1,620,943, the second largest in Spain, and the capital of the autonomous community of Catalonia. Its wider urban region is home to three-quarters of the population of Catalonia and one-eighth of that of Spain. == Origins == The origin of the earliest settlement at the site of present-day Barcelona is unclear. The coastal plain near the city conserves remains from the Neolithic and early Chalcolithic periods. The ruins of an early settlement have been found near the current town of Raval including different tombs and a hut from 5.500 BC. Later, in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, the area was settled by the Laietani, an Ιberian people, at ''Barkeno'' on the Táber hill (in the present-day ''Ciutat Vella'', or "Old City") and at ''Laie'' (or ''Laiesken''), believed to have been located on Montjuïc. Both settlements struck coinage which survives to this day. Some historians have maintained that a small Greek colony, ''Kallipolis'' (Καλλίπολις), was founded in the vicinity at around the same period, but conclusive archaeological evidence to support this has not been found. It is sometimes asserted that the area was occupied c. 230 BC by Carthaginian troops under the leadership of Hamilcar Barca, but this is disputed. The alleged military occupation is often cited as the foundation of the modern city of Barcelona, although the northern limit of the Punic territories up to that time had been the Ebro river, located over 150 km to the south. There is no evidence that Barcelona was ever a Carthaginian settlement, or that its name in antiquity, ''Barcino'', had any connection with the Barcid family of Hamilcar. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of Barcelona」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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