Cartagena or Carthagena may refer to:
Places
Chile
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Cartagena, Chile
Cartagena is a Chilean Communes of Chile, commune located in the San Antonio Province, Valparaíso Region. The commune spans an area of .
History
In the seventeenth century the area surrounding the town became a major producer of wheat, which wa ...
, a commune in Valparaíso Region
Colombia
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Cartagena, Colombia
Cartagena ( ), known since the colonial era as Cartagena de Indias (), is a city and one of the major ports on the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Coast Region, along the Caribbean Sea. Cartagena's past role as a link in the route ...
, a city in the Bolívar Department, the largest city with this name
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, an archdiocese located in the city of Cartagena in Colombia
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Cartagena Province
Cartagena Province (), also called ''Gobierno de Cartagena'' (Government of Cartagena) during the Spanish imperial era, was an administrative and territorial division of New Granada in the Viceroyalty of Peru. It was originally organized on Febr ...
, a historical province that was part of the Republic of Gran Colombia, of which the eponymous city was the capital
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Cartagena Refinery, an oil refinery in Cartagena, Colombia. It is operated by Refineria de Cartagena S.A. (Reficar), a subsidiary of Ecopetrol
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Cartagena del Chairá
Cartagena del Chairá () is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Caquetá. The town gained notoriety during the failed FARC-Government peace process (1999-2002) between the Government of Colombia and the guerrilla group Revolut ...
, a town and municipality in the department of Caquetá
Spain
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Cartagena, Spain
Cartagena () is a Spanish city belonging to the Region of Murcia. As of January 2018, it has a population of 218,943 inhabitants. The city lies in a natural harbor of the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula. Cartage ...
, a city in the Region of Murcia
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Cartagena
The Diocese of Cartagena () is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in the city of Cartagena, Spain, Cartagena in the ecclesiastical province of Archdiocese of Granada, Granada in Spain.[Campo de Cartagena
Campo de Cartagena is a natural region (comarca) located in the Region of Murcia, in Spain. For administrative purposes, it is also known as Comarca del Campo de Cartagena or Comarca de Cartagena. It is located in the southeast of the Iberian P ...]
, a comarca in the Region of Murcia, southeastern Spain
United States
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Carthagena, Ohio
Carthagena ( ) is an unincorporated community in Mercer County, Ohio, United States. Established by African Americans, it was home to an agricultural and industrial boarding school for African American and Indian orphans. It is located at and h ...
, an unincorporated community in Mercer County, Ohio
People
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Alfonso de Cartagena (1384–1456), Jewish-Spanish Catholic bishop, diplomat, historian and writer
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Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena
Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena (18 October 1959 – 21 January 2025) was a Salvadoran politician and journalist who served as the 79th president of El Salvador from 2009 to 2014. Funes won the 2009 presidential election as the candidate of t ...
(born 1959), a Salvadoran politician, president starting 2009
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Cristóbal Ramírez de Cartagena
Cristóbal Ramírez de Cartagena was a ''licenciado'' and Spanish colonial administrator in Peru. He was president of the '' Audiencia'' of Lima at the death of Viceroy Martín Enríquez de Almanza in 1583. In this capacity, he served as head of ...
(1583–1584), Spanish colonial administrator in Peru
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Fulgentius of Cartagena
Fulgentius of Cartagena (), born in Cartagena in the 6th century and died in 630, was Bishop of Ecija (Astigi), in Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula, comprising modern Spain and Portugal).
Biography
Like his brothers Leander of Seville and Isido ...
(6th century–630), a Spanish Catholic bishop
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José N. Gándara Cartagena (1907–1954), a Puerto Rican physician and public servant
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Joseph Cartagena
Joseph Antonio Cartagena (born August 19, 1970), better known by his stage name Fat Joe, is an American rapper. He began recording as a member of hip hop group Diggin' in the Crates Crew (D.I.T.C.) in 1992, and pursued a solo career with the r ...
or Fat Joe (born 1970), an American rapper
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Juan de Cartagena
Juan de Cartagena (died 1520) was a Spanish aristocrat who served on the Magellan expedition as the inspector general of the fleet and captain of one of the five ships sent by Spain to find a western route to Asia. Cartagena frequently argued wi ...
(died c. 1520), Spanish accountant, captain of the ''San Antonio'' during Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation
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Juan José Cartagena
Juan José Cartagena (c. 1815 – c. 1895) was Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from April 1876 to 4 July 1879, and again from February 1881 to October 1881.
First mayoral term (1876)
During the first of his mayoral terms, Cartagena was mayor ...
(1876–1881), Puerto Rican mayor
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Miguel Cartagena (born 1992), Puerto Rican-American boxer
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Modesto Cartagena
Sergeant First Class Modesto Cartagena de Jesús (July 21, 1921 – March 2, 2010) was a member of the United States Army who served in the 65th Infantry Regiment, a military regiment consisting of Puerto Rican enlisted soldiers and officers fr ...
(1921–2010), highly decorated Puerto Rican soldier
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Nicolás Nogueras Cartagena (1935–2019), a Puerto Rican politician and commentator
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Raúl Gándara Cartagena
Raúl Gándara Cartagena (1910–1989) was fire chief in Ponce, Puerto Rico, and the first and longest-serving Commonwealth of Puerto Rico fire chief. He served from 1942 to 1972.
Public service
Gándara Cartagena was born in Ponce, Puerto Ri ...
(1895–1989), Puerto Rican fire chief
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Teresa de Cartagena
Teresa de Cartagena (fl. 1425 – 1478) was a writer, Mysticism, mystic and nun in late medieval Castile who is considered to be the first Spanish-language female writer and mystic. She became deaf between 1453 and 1459. Her experience of deafness ...
(born c. 1420), Spanish nun and author
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Victoria Cartagena
Victoria Cartagena is an American theater, film, and television actress. Cartagena is known for her role as Zoe Lopez in '' The Bedford Diaries'', and for portraying Renee Montoya as series regular in the first season of '' Gotham'' and the thir ...
(born 1985), American actress
Arts, entertainment, and media
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''Cartagena'' (board game), a German-style board game released in 2000, that takes as its theme the legendary 1672 pirate-led jailbreak from the dreaded fortress of Cartagena
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''Cartagena'' (film), a 2009 film
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''Cartagena'' (novel), a 2015 novel by Claudia Amengual
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Cartagena Film Festival
The Cartagena Film Festival (), or FICCI, is a film festival held in Cartagena, Colombia, which focuses mainly on the promotion of Colombian television series, Latin American films and short films. The Cartagena Film Festival, which is held ever ...
, in Cartagena, Colombia
*Neo Cartagena, a fictitious lunar city in ''
Mobile Suit Victory Gundam
, is a 1993 Japanese science fiction anime television series. It consists of 51 episodes, and was directed by Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino. The series was first broadcast on TV Asahi (and its ANN stations). It is the fourth TV anime in ...
'' that developed mobile armors for the Zanscare Empire
Historical events
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Battle of Cartagena (209 BC)
The battle of New Carthage took place in early 209BC when a Roman army under Publius Cornelius Scipio successfully assaulted New Carthage, the capital of Carthaginian Iberia, which was defended by a garrison under Mago. The battle was part o ...
, a battle in what is now Cartagena, Spain
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Battle of Cartagena (461)
The Battle of Cartagena occurred on May 13, 460Ian Hughes: ''Gaiseric - The Vandal Who Destroyed Rome'', pages 61, 95 and 151–165. Pen and Sword, Barnsley 2017Tony Jaques: ''Dictionary of Battles and Sieges'', Vol. 1 (A-E), page 205. Greenwo ...
, a naval battle off what is now Cartagena, Spain
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Battle of Cartagena (1643)
The Battle of Cartagena was a naval battle fought on 3 September 1643, during the Thirty Years' War off Cabo de Gata near Cartagena, Spain.
After a series of victories in 1641 and 1642 the French Navy dominated the Western Mediterranean Sea. ...
, a naval battle off Cartagena, Spain
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Raid on Cartagena (1697)
The raid on Cartagena de Indias was a successful attack by the French on the fortified city of Cartagena de Indias, on 6 May 1697, as part of the War of the Grand Alliance.
Background
By 1695, the French Navy had declined to the point that it ...
, a siege of Cartagena, Colombia
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Battle of Cartagena de Indias
The Battle of Cartagena de Indias () took place during the 1739 to 1748 War of Jenkins' Ear between Spanish Empire, Spain and Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain. The result of long-standing commercial tensions, the war was primarily fough ...
, a 1741 battle in Cartagena, Colombia
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Battle of Cartagena (1758)
The Battle of Cartagena took place on 28 February 1758 off the Spanish port of Cartagena during the Seven Years' War. A British fleet under Henry Osborn, which had blockaded a French fleet in Cartagena, attacked and defeated a French force und ...
, a naval battle Cartagena, Spain
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Cartagena Manifesto
The Cartagena Manifesto was written by Simón Bolívar during the Colombian and Venezuelan War of Independence, after the fall of the First Republic, explaining what he believed to be the causes of this loss. It was written in Cartagena de India ...
, an 1812 document written in Cartagena, Colombia
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Siege of Cartagena (1815)
The siege of Cartagena (1815) () was a successful 105-day Spanish siege by combined naval and ground forces under command of General Pablo Morillo, of the Colombian city and fortress of Cartagena de Indias, defended by Republican forces under t ...
, a siege of Cartagena, Colombia
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Cartagena uprising, a 1939 (Spanish Civil War) uprising in Cartagena, Spain
Sports teams
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Cartagena CF
Cartagena Club de Fútbol was a football club based in Cartagena, Region of Murcia. The club played 7 seasons in Segunda División. Cartagena CF disappeared at the end of the 1951–52 season for not paying its players.
Immediately after Cartag ...
, a football club based in Cartagena, Spain
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Cartagena FC
Cartagena Fútbol Club is a Spanish football team based in Cartagena, in the autonomous community of Murcia. They were formerly called UD Cartagenera. Founded in 1940, they are focused on youth football, and hold home games at ''Ciudad Deport ...
, a football club based in Cartagena, Spain
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FC Cartagena
Fútbol Club Cartagena, S.A.D. is a Spanish football team based in Cartagena, in the Region of Murcia, Spain. Founded in 1995 it currently plays in Segunda División, holding home games at '' Estadio Cartagonova'', with a capacity of 15,105 sp ...
, a football club based in Cartagena, Spain
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FS Cartagena
Futsal Cartagena is a futsal club based in Cartagena, a city in the autonomous community of Region of Murcia.
The club was founded in 1993 and held its home matches in Palacio de los Deportes, which has a capacity of 5162 persons.
History
Fút ...
, a futsal club based in Cartagena, Spain
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Real Cartagena
Real Cartagena is a professional Colombian football team based in Cartagena, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera B. They play their home games at the Jaime Morón León stadium.
History
The origins of Real Cartagena date back to 197 ...
, a football club based in Cartagena, Colombia
Other uses
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Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity is an international agreement on biosafety as a supplement to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) effective since 2003. The Biosafety Protocol seeks to prot ...
, an international agreement on biosafety, as a supplement to the Convention on Biological Diversity
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Cartagena (Madrid Metro), a station on Line 7
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Cartagena (Mexibús), a BRT station in Tultitlán, Mexico
See also
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Carthage (disambiguation)
Carthage ( or ') was the capital city of Ancient Carthage, and is currently an archaeological site near Tunis, Tunisia.
Carthage or Carthago may also refer to:
* Ancient Carthage
Places United States
* Carthage, Arkansas
* Carthage, Cali ...
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Spanish-language surnames
Surnames of Spanish origin