“The so-called Pitiusa bears this name due to the multitude of pines that grow there. In the middle of the sea, three days and three nights sailing from the Columns of Hercules, one day and one night of Libya … dotted with smiling fields and hills, the city is called Ebusos and it is a Carthaginian colony. It also has ports worthy of mention, great walls, a considerable number of beautifully built houses. It is inhabited by foreigners of all kinds and mainly by Phoenicians. The colonization of the island took place 160 years after the founding of Carthage. – Diodorus of Sicily year I, BC.“
