Seville's history is intimately linked to the Guadalquivir River. From its origins the Guadalquivir has played the role of river port and bridge between the Atlantic Ocean and the region of Andalusia. The original Seville was born where the river ceased to be navigable for large vessels. Archaeological excavations indicate that human settlement was stable to the ninth century BC.For centuries, scholars and analysts called for Heracles, the most popular of the heroes of mythology, the honor of marking six stone pillars where Julius Caesar founded the city of Seville, which he called Luli Hispalis Romulo.
In the year 206 B.C. Scipio Africanus established a contingent of Italian soldiers in veterans, a few miles from Seville. Surely this is a must visit place for those who want to understand the high degree of development reached the province of Bética during the imperial era. The birthplace of Trajan and Hadrian lived days of glory over the centuries II, III and IV A.C. At the end of the Empire had become the most important city in Hispania and the eleventh of the world.
In the year 411, the Vandals seized silingos Andalusia province. Hispalis-taking occurred in the 426 by the Vandal Gunderico. Another important impact was during the Visigoth's domination stage which coincided with the reign of Emperor Justinian in Constantinople (527-565). During the reign of Recaredo, in the year 589, has a splendid cultural bonanza.The Roman name of Hispalis was switch for Isbiliya in the year 712 when the city fell under the domination of Islam. During five centuries of domination, Seville played a political and cultural concern. The fall of the Caliphate of Córdoba in 1035 led to the disintegration of the territorial unit Andalusí, unveiling a series of independent kingdoms, among which was Seville. During the period of government of the monarchs Abbadie, Isbiliya not only reached its maximum territorial expansion, but also a total dominance over the other Taifas. (Small kingdoms)
To control the craving expansionist Alfonso VI, king of Castile and Leon, the Muslim kings of Badajoz, Granada and Seville, agreed to seek help from outside and there was another force that the closest of African Berber Almoravids. In the end, the power is resolved against almorávid own kingdoms Taifas, take over Seville in 1091. The extreme rigidity of religion and social intolerance imposed by this dynasty disappointed the people, who quickly organized in independence movements. This led to arrival in the country of Almohads who landed in Cadiz in 1146. The Almohad Seville imposed as administrative capital of Al-Andalus. Arrived on the welfare and prosperity; Although, interspersed with others of concern, because of the frequent incursions into Spanish territory and the periodic flooding of the Guadalquivir. This did not prevent the Almohads develop a constructive program in which we must mention the building of a mosque where today stands the imposing cathedral Seville. By the year 1220 the Almohad power walks toward his total decline, triumphantly entered the city in 1248 King Ferdinand III, turning the city into a vast realm 
of enduring Christian civil and ecclesiastical life. His son and successor Alfonso X "El Sabio" always felt real weakness for Seville, to be matched for by its inhabitants. The years following the reconquest of Seville, the city was a place of settlement of a large colony of Jews. In 1391 the Jewish community was subjected to a violent assault with numerous killings and looting. The old Jewish quarter of Seville is formed districts of Santa Cruz and San Bartolomé. In the year 1401, the council of the Cathedral of Seville adopted a landmark agreement for the religious history of the city, nothing less than building a new metropolitan church. The Seville Cathedral was consecrated in 1507. With the discovery of America in 1492 began the modern age, and Seville is raised for more than two centuries in the New World port. Reales Alcazares in Seville in 1503 created the Casa de la Contratación, fundamental body to regulate commercial relations, scientific and legal disputes with America. In the early sixteenth century, concern for counting in Seville with higher education resulted in the founding of the Colegio Santa Maria de Jesus Maese Rodrigo Fernández de Santaella. This institution was the germ of the future Hispalense University. Despite the affluence experienced during the previous century, the seventeenth-century Seville cannot escape the severe economic crisis that affected Europe at that time in general and Spain in particular. Seville, inflamed spirit counter becomes urbanistically convent in town. There is no doubt the weight of religion in the Seville Baroque pulse to earn the title of "Land of Holy Mary."
With the relocation of the Casa de la Contratación and the Consulate of Cadiz in Maritime 1717, Sevilla lost the monopoly of Indian trade and began its decline. It was not until the second half of the nineteenth century for the city to start a new expansion based on the railway construction and building on the demolition of part of its ancient walls. The city is growing to the east and south is the nineteenth Ensanche, which is completed in the first decades of the twentieth century with the buildings constructed during the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929 (Plaza de España, Maria Luisa Gardens). After exposure Seville undertakes the refurbishment of its infrastructure: creation of the airport, waterworks pipe from the river and its streams to curb the flood disaster, a network of trams, and so on. The city is thrown from the'60s to a real expansion that set the current suburb. In 1992 the World Exposition was held (Expo 92) in the Isla de la Cartuja. Seville enters the twenty-first century completely remodeled and modernized.
Translated from http://institucional.us.es/relint/sevillahist.htm
of enduring Christian civil and ecclesiastical life. His son and successor Alfonso X "El Sabio" always felt real weakness for Seville, to be matched for by its inhabitants. The years following the reconquest of Seville, the city was a place of settlement of a large colony of Jews. In 1391 the Jewish community was subjected to a violent assault with numerous killings and looting. The old Jewish quarter of Seville is formed districts of Santa Cruz and San Bartolomé. In the year 1401, the council of the Cathedral of Seville adopted a landmark agreement for the religious history of the city, nothing less than building a new metropolitan church. The Seville Cathedral was consecrated in 1507. With the discovery of America in 1492 began the modern age, and Seville is raised for more than two centuries in the New World port. Reales Alcazares in Seville in 1503 created the Casa de la Contratación, fundamental body to regulate commercial relations, scientific and legal disputes with America. In the early sixteenth century, concern for counting in Seville with higher education resulted in the founding of the Colegio Santa Maria de Jesus Maese Rodrigo Fernández de Santaella. This institution was the germ of the future Hispalense University. Despite the affluence experienced during the previous century, the seventeenth-century Seville cannot escape the severe economic crisis that affected Europe at that time in general and Spain in particular. Seville, inflamed spirit counter becomes urbanistically convent in town. There is no doubt the weight of religion in the Seville Baroque pulse to earn the title of "Land of Holy Mary."With the relocation of the Casa de la Contratación and the Consulate of Cadiz in Maritime 1717, Sevilla lost the monopoly of Indian trade and began its decline. It was not until the second half of the nineteenth century for the city to start a new expansion based on the railway construction and building on the demolition of part of its ancient walls. The city is growing to the east and south is the nineteenth Ensanche, which is completed in the first decades of the twentieth century with the buildings constructed during the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929 (Plaza de España, Maria Luisa Gardens). After exposure Seville undertakes the refurbishment of its infrastructure: creation of the airport, waterworks pipe from the river and its streams to curb the flood disaster, a network of trams, and so on. The city is thrown from the'60s to a real expansion that set the current suburb. In 1992 the World Exposition was held (Expo 92) in the Isla de la Cartuja. Seville enters the twenty-first century completely remodeled and modernized.
Translated from http://institucional.us.es/relint/sevillahist.htm
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