This is what the Arabs called Seville. The Turdetani, pre-Roman people who inhabited the area of the lower Guadalquivir some centuries ago. C . , heirs of the Tartessians, called it Ispal or Spal , flat land in Phoenician, which Julius Caesar and the Romans transformed into Híspalis, Julia Romula Hispalis. On the Visigothic coins appears later Spalis and Ispalis that the Arabs converted into Ishbiliya because of its phonetic difficulty with the p . Finally it was Castilianized in our Seville.
