{"id":1062,"date":"2015-02-05T12:10:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T15:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puigciutat.com\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2017-03-01T15:35:24","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T14:35:24","slug":"the-historical-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puigciutat.com\/en\/the-historical-context\/","title":{"rendered":"The Historical Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Civil War between Julius Caesar and followers of Gnaeus Pompeius (BC 49-45)<\/h3>\n<p>The excavations carried out so far have given a date for the destruction of Puig Ciutat at the end of the Roman Republic, possibly during the Civil War between followers of Julius Caesar and followers of Gnaeus Pompeius. The map shows the area of influence of the two sides in the moments before the Battle of Ilerda (49 BC), when Caesar had control over Gaul and Pompey over a large part of <em>Hispania<\/em>. The regions under the control of the Roman Senate also supported Pompey.<\/p>\n<p>Historical sources mention the movement of Caesar\u2019s troops from Marseille to <em>Hispania<\/em> via unidentified points of the Pyrenees to confront Pompey\u2019s followers, who had taken up position in <em>Ilerda<\/em> (Lleida).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Civil War between Julius Caesar and followers of Gnaeus Pompeius (BC 49-45) The excavations carried out so far have given a date for the destruction of Puig Ciutat at the end of the Roman Republic, possibly during the Civil War between followers of Julius Caesar and followers of Gnaeus Pompeius. The map shows the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.puigciutat.com\/en\/the-historical-context\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Historical Context<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[64,97,99,76,95,98,96,54,59,42],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jaciment-en","tag-archaeology","tag-civil-war","tag-gnaeus-pompeius","tag-hispania","tag-history","tag-julius-cesar","tag-map","tag-puig-ciutat","tag-republic","tag-romans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puigciutat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puigciutat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puigciutat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puigciutat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puigciutat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.puigciutat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/www.puigciutat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puigciutat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puigciutat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puigciutat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puigciutat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}