The city of Italica (; north of modern day Santiponce, 9 km NW of Seville, Spain) was founded in 206 BC by the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus in order to settle Roman soldiers wounded in the Battle of Ilipa, where the Carthaginian army was defeated during the Second Punic War.
==Storia==Italica fu fondata nel 206 a.C. da Publio Cornelio Scipione Africano sulla destra del fiume Guadalquivir, in corrispondenza dell'odierna Santiponce, in provincia di Siviglia,per insediarvi i soldati romani feriti nella battaglia di Ilipa (Seconda guerra punica).