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Show Codlx Older Than Rome. Cadiz, Spnlu, was founded nhoot four centuries earlier than Rome and about X) years litter than Athens. It la quite generally conceded that tha founders were Plmeiiiclun adventurers from Tyre and that the settlement was mule nlxnt II'X I'. O. SI hundred years nfter lhe city was In the possession posses-sion nt the Cnrtb:ti;lulans nnd was one of the great market places of the world. At the end of the second Punic war the city hecmue Roman and advanced ad-vanced to great prosperity and civic dignity, and at one time ranked second to Komj in Intlueuce. |