Editing Tarragona (section)

===Theories of Origin===
The city's origins trace back to a possible Iberian settlement known as Kesse or Kosse, named after the local Iberian tribe, the Cossetans. However, the exact connection of Tarragona to Kesse remains uncertain.<ref>{{cite book |author=Silvia Orvietani Busch |title=Medieval Mediterranean Ports: The Catalan and Tuscan Coasts, 1100 to 1235 |publisher=BRILL |year=2001 |isbn=90-04-12069-6 |page=53}}</ref> Scholars such as [[William Smith (lexicographer)|William Smith]] suggest that the city may have been established by the [[Phoenicia]]ns, who referred to it as {{lang|phn|Tarchon}}. According to [[Samuel Bochart]], signifies a citadel. The moniker likely stemmed from its location atop a high rock, approximately {{cvt|75|-|90|m|-1}} above sea level; earning it the epithet {{lang|la|arce potens Tarraco}}.<ref>Ausonius ''Class. Urb.'' 9; cf. ''Mart''. x. 104.</ref> It was seated on the river Sulcis or Tulcis (modern [[Francolí (river)|Francolí]]), on a bay of the Mare Internum (Mediterranean), between the Pyrenees and the River Iberus (modern [[Ebro]]).<ref>[[Mela]], ii. 6; [[Pliny the Elder]] iii. 3. s. 4.</ref> [[Livy]] mentions a {{lang|la|portus Tarraconis}};<ref>xxii. 22</ref> and according to [[Eratosthenes]] it had a naval station or roads ({{lang|grc|Ναύσταθμον}});<ref>''ap.'' [[Strabo]] iii. p. 159</ref> but [[Artemidorus Ephesius]] says with more probability that it had none, and scarcely even an anchoring place; and Strabo himself refers to it as "harbourless" ({{lang|grc|ἀλίμενος}}).<ref>''ap.'' Strab. ''l. c.''; [[Polybius]] iii. 76</ref><ref>Ford's Handbook of Spain, p. 222.</ref>