Cadiz

Fortified city of s. Spain, on a peninsula jutting into the Atlantic. It is an important commercial port, though le so than in the 17th and 18th centuries. Occupying an almost insular situation, it is much resorted to in the heat of summer. IMG:content-0669.png:[graphic][merged small] It was founded by Phoenicians ab. 1100 B.C., taken by the Romans 206 B.C., and from the Moors by the Spaniards 1262; burned by the English 1596; blockaded by the French 1810-12, and held by them 1823-28; cradle of the Spanish revolution of 1868. Pop. 1887, 62,531.