Ebro

The Ebro (Spanish, pronounced [eβɾo]) or Ebre (Catalan, pronounced [eβɾə] or [eβɾe]) is Spain's most voluminous river. Its source is in Fontibre (Cantabria). It flows through cities such as Miranda de Ebro, Logroño, Zaragoza, Flix, Tortosa, and Amposta before discharging in a delta on the Mediterranean Sea in the province of Tarragona. The Romans named this river Iber (Iberus Flumen), hence its current name but probably derives from the Greek Hèv... more

The Ebro (Spanish, pronounced [eβɾo]) or Ebre (Catalan, pronounced [eβɾə] or [eβɾe]) is Spain's most voluminous river. Its source is in Fontibre (Cantabria). It flows through cities such as Miranda de Ebro, Logroño, Zaragoza, Flix, Tortosa, and Amposta before discharging in a delta on the Mediterranean Sea in the province of Tarragona. The Romans named this river Iber (Iberus Flumen), hence its current name but probably derives from the Greek Hèvros, Εβρος. Arguably the whole peninsula and some of the peoples living there were named after the river. In antiquity, The Ebro was used as the dividing line between Roman (north) and Carthaginian (south) expansions after the First Punic War. When Rome, fearful of Hannibal's growing influence in the Iberian Peninsula, made the city of Saguntum (considerably south of the Ebro) a protectorate of Rome, Hannibal viewed this treaty as an aggressive action by Rome and used the event as the catalyst to the Second Punic War. One of the earliest... less