This region’s port of Onusa was sacked following a naval battle whose losers were unprepared because they had disembarked to forage. The warrior queen Asbyte (“ass-BY-tee”) fights in a battle in this region in Book I of an epic by Silius Italicus. Rumors of an ill commander at a garrison in this region led to a mutiny supported by Indibilis (“in-DEE-bil-iss”) and Mandonius. After a battle in this region, an emissary lifted the folds of his toga and asked the battle’s winners to choose between peace and war. To win a battle in this region, Roman cavalry swung around to surprise a hungry army’s flank in a tactic called a “reverse Cannae (“canny”).” Victory at Ilipa (“ILL-ih-puh”) in this region allowed the Romans to gain control of the silver mines surrounding its port of Gādēs (“GAH-dayss”). For 10 points, the siege of Saguntum occurred in which region, whose city of Nova Carthago was renamed Cartagena? ■END■
ANSWER: Hispania [or Iberia; or Celtiberia; accept Hispania Citerior, Hispania Ulterior, Hispania Tarraconensis, Lusitania, or Baetica; prompt on Spain or Portugal] (The battle in the first sentence refers to the Battle of the Ebro River. Silius Italicus wrote Punica.)
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