Editing Seville (section)

===Early periods===
[[File:Tesoro del Carambolo - Museo Arqueológico de Sevilla.jpg|thumb|[[Treasure of El Carambolo]], belonging to the ancient [[Tartessos|Tartessian]] sanctuary located 3 kilometers west of Seville.]]
[[File:Caños de Carmona en calle Luis Montoto (2).jpg|thumb|Section of [[Caños de Carmona]]]]
The mythological founder of the city is Hercules ([[Heracles]]), commonly identified with the Phoenician god [[Melqart]], who the myth says sailed through the [[Strait of Gibraltar]] to the Atlantic, and founded trading posts at the current sites of [[Cádiz]] and of Seville.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://aznalfarache.blogspot.com/2010/09/leyendas-de-sevilla-5-hercules-y-la.html|title= Leyendas de Sevilla – 5 Hércules y la fundación de Sevilla|website=Aznalfarache.blogspot.com |date= 13 September 2010|access-date=29 February 2012}}</ref> The original core of the city, in the neighbourhood of the present-day street, Cuesta del Rosario, dates to the 8th century BC,<ref name="Salgueiro2007">{{cite book|author=Manuel Jesús Roldán Salgueiro|title=Historia de Sevilla|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zZXEGgAACAAJ|access-date=9 February 2013|year=2007|publisher=Almuzara|isbn=978-84-88586-24-7}}</ref> when Seville was on an island in the [[Guadalquivir]].<ref name="Mena1985">{{cite book|author=José María de Mena|title=Historia de Sevilla|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J_kqAQAAMAAJ|access-date=9 February 2013|year=1985|publisher=Plaza & Janés|isbn=978-84-01-37200-1|page=39}}</ref> Archaeological excavations in 1999 found anthropic remains under the north wall of the Real Alcázar dating to the 8th–7th century BC.<ref>{{cite web|title=Proyecto Puntual de Investigación 1999: Intervención Puntual: "Estudios estratigráficos y análisis constructivos"|url=http://www.alcazarsevilla.org/?page_id=33|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317193413/http://www.alcazarsevilla.org/?page_id=33|archive-date=17 March 2015|work=Real Alcázar|publisher=Real Alcázar de Sevilla|language=es|quote=Los restos antrópicos más antiguos se situaban sobre esta terraza, bajo la muralla Septentrional del Alcázar, datados en el s. VII-VIII a.C.|access-date=13 November 2017}}</ref> The town was called ''Hisbaal'' by the Phoenicians and by the Tartessians, the indigenous pre-Roman Iberian people of [[Tartessos]], who controlled the Guadalquivir Valley at the time.

The city was known from [[Hispania|Roman times]] as ''Hispal'' and later as ''Hispalis''. Hispalis developed into one of the great market and industrial centres of Hispania, while the nearby Roman city of [[Italica]] (present-day [[Santiponce]], birthplace of the Roman emperors [[Trajan]] and [[Hadrian]])<ref name="Nash2005">{{cite book|author=Elizabeth Nash|title=Seville, Cordoba, and Granada: A Cultural History: A Cultural History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vVA1reAI7w0C&pg=PA8|date=16 September 2005|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-972537-3|page=8}}</ref> remained a typically Roman residential city. Large-scale Roman archaeological remains can be seen there and at the nearby town of [[Carmona, Spain|Carmona]] as well.

Existing Roman features in Seville itself include the remains exposed ''in situ'' in the underground Antiquarium of the [[Metropol Parasol]] building, the remnants of an [[Caños de Carmona|aqueduct]], three pillars of a [[Roman temple|temple]] in ''Mármoles'' Street, the columns of [[La Alameda, Seville|La Alameda de Hércules]] and the remains in the [[Patio de Banderas]] square near the [[Seville Cathedral]]. The walls surrounding the city were originally built during the rule of [[Julius Caesar]], but their current course and design were the result of Moorish reconstructions.<ref name="degelo.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.degelo.com/sevilla/sev3.htm |title=Antiguas Murallas y Puertas de Sevilla |website=Degelo.com |access-date=12 March 2012}}</ref>

Following Roman rule, there were successive conquests of the Roman province of ''[[Hispania Baetica]]'' by the Germanic [[Vandals]], [[Suebi]] and [[Visigoths]] during the 5th and 6th centuries.