CARTAGENA´S NAME

The Origins Of Cartagena´s  Nowadays Name: CARTAGENA

Our city Cartagena has had a lot of names, such as Carthago-Nova, Quart-Hadast and more and more. Today we are going to talk you bout nowaday´s name: Cartagena.

Cartagena has a simple story, before "Cartagena" the city was named Qartayannat al-Halfa, and after the Christian reconquest, Alfonso of Castile called her "Cartagenia", but as it was difficult to pronounce to Carthaginians, people called it Cartagena. As we know nowadays. 

Now, we are posting some information about Cartagena´s shield:

The cartagena shield was approved in 1929.The shield has in the center a tower and surrounding the tower has 4 towers and 4 lions. The existence of the Cartagena shield is documented for the first time in a document of the year 1532 relative to an Execution on the possesion of Field Nubla.