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Cartagena
municipality in southeast Spain / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the city in Colombia, see Cartagena, Colombia.
Cartagena is a city in the Region of Murcia, in Spain. In the south of the region, at the Mediterranean Sea. The population of the city is 205,000 and it is an industrial centre. Cartagena was founded by the Carthaginese as "Qart Hadasht" and the name means New City.
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