Cartagena, a naval port of Spain, on the Mediterranean, with a capacious harbour; one of the oldest towns in it, founded by the Carthaginians; was once the largest naval arsenal in Europe. Also capital (12) of the Bolivar State in Colombia.
Population (circa 1900) given as 86,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Carstens, Asmus Jakob * Carte, Thomas