'''Abdera''' was an ancient seaport town on the south coast of [[Spain]], between [[Malaca]] (now [[Málaga]]) and [[Carthago Nova]] (now [[Cartagena, Spain|Cartagena]]), in the district inhabited by the [[Bastuli]].

It was founded by the [[Carthage|Carthaginians]] as a trading station, and after a period of decline became under the Romans one of the more important towns in the province of [[Hispania Baetica]]. It was situated on a hill above the modern [[Adra, Spain|Adra]].

Of its coins the most ancient bear the [[Phoenicia]]n inscription ''abdrt'' with the head of [[Heracles]] (Melkarth) and a [[tuna|tunny-fish]]; those of [[Tiberius]] (who seems to have made the place a colony) show the chief temple of the town with two tunny-fish erect in the form of columns.

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[[Category:Archaeological sites in Spain]]
[[Category:Municipalities in Almería]]
[[Category:Phoenician colonies]]

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