Cartagena or Cartagena de Indias (, Cartagena of the Indies ), is a city on the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Coast Region and capital of the Bolívar Department.

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In the city is the Augustinian Fathers Convent and the University of Cartagena.

The Raid on Cartagena in 1697 by Sir Bernard Desjean, Baron de Pointis and Jean Baptiste Ducasse was an all out invasion that was politically motivated.

The Cartagena urban area is also the fifth largest urban area in the country.

Filming started in Cartagena, Colombia, during September 2006.

The metropolitan area of Cartagena, known as Campo de Cartagena, has a population of 409,586 inhabitants.

Drake sailed for the West Indies and sacked Santo Domingo, captured Cartagena de Indias, and St. Augustine in Florida.

The city was founded on June 1, 1533, and named after Cartagena, Spain.

Currently, the company operates in more than 15 cities in Colombia including Cartagena, Santa Marta, Valledupar, Sincelejo and Monteria.

Cartagena was founded on June 1, 1533 by Spanish commander Pedro de Heredia, in the former location of the indigenous Caribbean Calamarí village.

In 1821 the general Mariano Montilla conducted the pivotal siege of Cartagena assisted by naval forces under José Prudencio Padilla.

On November 24, the two friends set sail for Cuba where they met fellow botanist and plant collector John Fraser, and after a stay of some months they regained the mainland at Cartagena, Colombia.

A younger brother, Saint Fulgentius of Cartagena, served as the Bishop of Astigi at the start of the new reign of the Catholic King Reccared.

The development of the Sinú society in what is today the departments of Córdoba and Sucre, eclipsed these first developments around the Cartagena Bay area.

Towards the southeast, Punic influence spread from the Carthaginian cities on the coast New Carthage (Roman Cartago Nova, modern Cartagena), Abdera and Malaca (Málaga).

It is the capital of the department of Magdalena and third largest urban city of the Caribbean Region of Colombia, after Barranquilla and Cartagena.

He confirmed the death sentences that provoked the resignation of his predecessor, reestablished order, and was at the point of surrendering to the cantonalists of Cartagena.

Political power that was already shifting from Bogotá to the coast completed its relocation, and the Viceroys decided to reside in Cartagena permanently.

(born November 16, 1936, Cartagena, Spain), was the Director of the Holy See Press Office (or Vatican Press Office), taking the post in 1984.

During his mandate he once and for all subdued the cantonal insurrections, and that of Cartagena, and concentrated his forces on the Carlist War in the north of Spain.

Afterwards, the deed would be repeated in Alicante, but on the trip back to Cartagena they were captured as pirates by the armoured frigates HMS Swiftsure and SMS Friedrich Karl, under the UK and German flags respectively.

In some regions, political alliances that were quite unlikely one year ago, now were made possible, whereas some independent candidates won some important posts in big cities (such as Medellín or Cartagena).

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Saint Isidore of Seville ( c. 560 4 April 636) served as Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and is considered, as the 19th century historian Montalembert put it in an oft quoted phrase, The last scholar of the ancient world .

Indeed, at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena in April 2012, Latin American leaders felt sufficiently confident and united to challenge US priorities in the region.

Absent a male successor to the Spanish Habsburg throne, King Louis XIV wanted his grandson Felipe V to assert the right of succession, and conquering Cartagena could help significantly.

The most active and known of the cantons was that of Cartagena, born on 12 July at the city naval base under the inspiration of the federalist congressman Antonio Gálvez Arce, known as Antonete .

The pro trade economic policies of the new dynasty in Madrid bolstered the economics of Cartagena, and the establishment of the Viceroyalty of the New Granada in 1717 placed the city in the position of being the greatest beneficiary of the colony.

These included the biannual meetings for central bank governors which took place in Cartagena and Washington , D.C. in April and September respectively , as well as a seminar on workers remittances in Latin America which took place in Mexico City in October .

By 1816, the combined efforts of Spanish and colonial forces, marching south from Cartagena and north from royalist strongholds in Quito, Pasto, and Popayán, completed the reconquest of New Granada, taking Bogotá on May 6, 1816.

The first wave of uprisings that took place without any knowledge of revolt elsewhere were in Cartagena and Valencia on 23 May, Zaragoza and Murcia on 24 May, and the province of Asturias, which cast out its French governor on 25 May, and declared war on Napoleon at the height of his greatness .

The OAS Secretary General, José Miguel Insulza, presented a report entitled The Drug Problem in the Americas, which had been requested by the region s heads of state when they met at last year s Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia.

Cartago is the name of at least three different places Cartago Province, Costa Rica Cartago, Costa Rica, capital of the province of Cartago Cartago, Valle del Cauca, Colombia Cartago, California, United States Cartago, phoenician colony See also Carthage (disambiguation) in Latin and related languages.

History Pre Columbian era 4000 BC 1500 AD The Puerto Hormiga Culture, found in the Caribbean coast region, particularly in the area from the Sinú River Delta to the Cartagena Bay, appears to be the first documented human community in what is now Colombia.

In the municipality of Barrax, at 740 m above the plain, is the hill called Hill of the three bishops, so named because it is the converging point in the bishoprics of Toledo, Cuenca, Cartagena until it created the Diocese of Albacete in 1950, which was incorporated in 1996 Barrax.

The unitary republic At the same time as the political convulsions were taking place, General López Domínguez entered into Cartagena on 12 January, replacing Martínez Campos, while Antonete Gálvez, with more than a thousand men, struggled to elude him near the border of Numancia (Numantia) and set course for Orán, (Algeria).

The reconstruction after the Raid on Cartagena (1697) was initially slow, but with the end of the War of the Spanish Succession around 1711 and the competent administration of Juan Díaz de Torrezar Pimienta, the walls were rebuilt, the forts reorganized and restored, and the public services and buildings reopened.

Release and promotion To promote the launch of the album, as a suggestion from Shakira, live performances were held in locations such as Teatro Amira de la Rosa, Cartagena, Santa Marta, Riohacha, Medellin, Cali, Bogota, and other various theaters and events, all of which received print, radio and television coverage.

To the north the Caribbean coast, home to 20 of the population and the location of the major port cities of Barranquilla and Cartagena, generally consists of low lying plains, but it also contains the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range, which includes the country's tallest peaks (Pico Cristóbal Colón and Pico Simón Bolívar), and the La Guajira Desert.