Vue de la Ciudad de Las Palmas

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Article ID EUE1614

Title

Vue de la Ciudad de Las Palmas

Description

View of the city of Las Palmas on Mallorca

Year

ca. 1830

Artist

Champin

Historical Description

Around the year 654 BC, the Carthaginians founded their trading post of Ebusim on Ibiza. After previous isolated contacts with Phoenician and Greek traders, the Balearic Islands thus came within the sphere of influence of the emerging Phoenician colony on the North African coast near present-day Tunis. With the associated opening to the outside world, the influence of other Mediterranean cultures on Mallorca increased from 500 B.C. onwards, which was expressed, for example, in the reproduction of Punic and Roman ceramic forms. Through the connection with Carthage, the Balearic Islands were drawn into the three Punic wars between 264 and 146 BC against Rome. After the fall of Carthage due to its defeat by Rome in the Third Punic War (149 to 146 BC), a power vacuum was created in Mallorca, which was used by the island's inhabitants for pirate raids, including on Roman ships. This ended the strengthening Roman Empire with the occupation of the island in 123 BC. With Roman settlers were founded in 122 BC the city Palmaria Palmensis (Palma) in the south and around 70 BC the city Pol-lèntia near today's Alcúdia in the north. Through the mixing of the Romans with the indigenous Iberian population and the introduction of Latin as the administrative language, Mallorca was Romanized over the next hundred years. Arab conquerors first came to Mallorca in 707, but were unable to establish themselves. In 859, the Balearic Islands were approached and plundered by a fleet of Vikings who carried out raids along the Iberian Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts. Unlike later Norman voyages to the Mediterranean, however, the Vikings did not intend to conquer permanent possessions. The Moors and Arabs ruled from the tenth to the thirteenth century, during which Mallorca was reconquered by the Christians. In 1229, James I of Aragon and Catalonia invaded Medina Mayurka and defeated the military force of the Moors. James founded the Kingdom of Mallorca and a short time later began construction of the cathedral. His son, James II and King of Mallorca, had palaces and residences built in many places. Under the Catholic Monarchs, Mallorca was an independent part of the Crown of Aragon and later of Spain, but it lost its independence at the beginning of the 18th century. It was only with the reintroduction of democracy in Spain that the Balearic Islands became an autonomous territory again in 1983, when the Statute of Autonomy was signed.

Place of Publication Paris
Dimensions (cm)19 x 26,5
ConditionVery good
Coloringcolored
TechniqueLithography

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