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Barcino (Polish: [barˈt͡ɕinɔ]; German: Bartin) [1] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kępice, within Słupsk County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. [2] It lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) north-east of Kępice , 22 km (14 mi) south of Słupsk , and 110 km (68 mi) west of the regional capital Gdańsk .
Thomas Cook Group plc was a global travel group, headquartered in the United Kingdom and listed on the London Stock Exchange from its formation on 19 June 2007 by the merger of Thomas Cook AG — successor to Thomas Cook & Son — and MyTravel Group [9] until 23 September 2019, when it went into compulsory liquidation.
Children. Hannibal Hasdrubal Mago three daughters (names unknown) Hamilcar Barca or Barcas (Punic: 𐤇𐤌𐤋𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤟𐤁𐤓𐤒, Ḥomilqart Baraq; c.275 –228 BC) was a Carthaginian general and statesman, leader of the Barcid family, and father of Hannibal, Hasdrubal and Mago. He was also father-in-law to Hasdrubal the Fair.
The history of Barcelona stretches over 2000 years to its origins as an Visigoth village named Barkeno. [ 1 ] In the early 8th century, Al-Hurr ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Thaqafi founded the city of Barshiluna in the Iberian Peninsula, significantly contributing to the spread of Islamic culture in Al-Andalus. Under Muslim rule, the city became a ...
Barcelonnette was founded and named in 1231, by Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence. [3] While the town's name is generally seen as a diminutive form of Barcelona in Catalonia, Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing point out an earlier attestation of the name Barcilona in Barcelonnette in around 1200, and suggest that it is derived instead from two earlier stems [specify] signifying a mountain ...
The Museum of the History of Barcelona (Catalan: Museu d'Història de Barcelona, MUHBA) is a history museum that conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the historical heritage of the city of Barcelona, from its origins in Roman times until the present day. The museum's headquarters are located on Plaça del Rei, in the Barcelona ...
The Temple of Augustus in Barcelonawas a Roman templebuilt during the Imperial periodin the colony of Barcino (modern day Barcelona). The temple was the central building on Tàber Hill, currently in Carrer del Paradísnumber 10, in the city's so-called Gothic Quarter. The dedication to Augustus is traditional, but unproven.
Map of Barcino superimposed on the current map of the Gothic Quarter. Barcelona was founded by Roman colonizers in the first century BC with the name of Barcino . [ note 1 ] Originally, it was a small walled city which took the urban form of castrum initially, and later oppidum , seated on the Mons Taber (16.9 meters above sea level ), a small ...