In the 7th century BC Phoenician and Greek merchants established a trading settlement and port in Huelva and exported the minerals they found throughout the ...

1250 BC has been tentatively defended by scholars, Phoenicians established a stable colony roughly by the 9th century BC. Modern economic activity conformed to ...

The purchase deed of a 20-year-old "mulata blanca" (white mulatto girl) slave named Agustina. Slavery was legal until the 19th century. In the 14th and 15th ...

Occupied by the Moors, Huelva was recaptured for the Christians in 1257 by Alfonso X (the Wise) of Castile. The colossal statue of Christopher Columbus, 112 ...

The history of this province, with its inescapable maritime tradition, goes back to the first millennium BC. Tartessians and Phoenicians exploited the inland ...

Huelva is a province of southern Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Andalusia. It is bordered by Portugal, the provinces of Badajoz, ...

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A walk in this part of town is a journey though part of Huelva's long history. The mining firm called the Río Tinto Company established a settlement that ...

Feb 13, 2024 · Huelva's history is extremely long, going back many thousands of years, into the earliest stages of pre-history and palaeolithic and neolithic.

This started with a British investment group buying the Riotinto copper mines in 1873, which later became the largest mining company in the world; Riotinto ...