![]() Ibiza was a major trading post along the Mediterranean routes. The island produced dye, salt, fish sauce ( garum) and wool.Ī shrine with offerings to the goddess Tanit was established in the cave at Es Cuieram, and the rest of the Balearic Islands entered Eivissa's commercial orbit after 400 BC. With the decline of Phoenicia after the Assyrian invasions, Ibiza came under the control of Carthage, also a former Phoenician colony. In 654 BC, Phoenician settlers founded a port on Ibiza. History Īncient Greek aryballoi found in the necropolis of Puig des Molins. In the 18th and 19th centuries the island was known to the British and especially to the Royal Navy as Ivica. The Greeks called the two islands of Ibiza and Formentera the Pityoûssai ( Πιτυοῦσσαι, "Pine-Covered Islands"). Phoenician colonists called the island Ibossim or Iboshim ( Phoenician: □□□□, ʾBŠM, "Dedicated to Bes"). In British English, the name is usually pronounced in an approximation of the Spanish ( / aɪ ˈ b iː θ ə, ɪ ˈ-/ eye- BEE-thə, ih- ), whereas in American English the pronunciation is closer to Latin American Spanish ( / ɪ ˈ b iː z ə/ ib- EE-zə, / iː ˈ b iː s ə/ ee- BEE-sə, and so forth). Its name in Spanish is Ibiza ( pronounced ). The official Catalan name is Eivissa ( locally ). Ibiza and the nearby island of Formentera to its south are called the Pine Islands, or " Pityuses". The island's government and the Spanish Tourist Office have worked toward promoting more family-oriented tourism. Ibiza has become well known for its association with nightlife, electronic dance music and for the summer club scene, all of which attract large numbers of tourists. Its highest point, called Sa Talaiassa (or Sa Talaia), is 475 metres (1,558 feet) above sea level. Its largest settlements are Ibiza Town ( Catalan: Vila d'Eivissa, or simply Vila), Santa Eulària des Riu, and Sant Antoni de Portmany. It is the third largest of the Balearic Islands, an autonomous community of Spain. It is 150 kilometres (93 miles) from the city of Valencia. Ibiza ( Catalan: Eivissa, see below) is a Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea off the eastern coast of Spain. ![]()
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