Looking for any information for Greek Colonies in Iberia

I am looking for any information on Greek Colonies on the Iberian Peninsula, especially ones that would have been active around 550 BCE, I have found references to a Hemeroskopeion on one wikipedia image and some information about a Zakynthos where modern-day Sagunto is but can find almost no information of use on it. I would be grateful for any help.
 
The Greeks in Spain were more traders than colonists and came from Phocea in Asia Minor, at least ultimately. Unlike the Punics/Phoenicians who built cities inhabited by Punics only the Greek ones were often inhabited by Greeks and locals, although the two groups were physically divided (i.e. there would be a wall within the city separating the two). IIRC the Iberians also adopted technology and practices more easily from the Greeks than from the Punics, which makes sense given the closer cohabitation.

The most populated Greek colonies in the Iberian Peninsula were in what is now the coast of Girona in northern Catalonia, in particular Emporion (now Ampurias) and Rhode (Rosas) . They were founded around 575 bC by Phoceans coming from Massilia/Marseilles. Emporion in particular was initially in an island off shore but moved to the continent precisely in 550 bC and received a lot of refugees following the Persian conquest of Phocea in 546 bC and the Greek exodus from Corsica following their defeat at Alalia in 537. A third Greek colony existed in Agathe, now Agde, in the Roussillon.

Greek pressence in southern Catalonia and further(er) to the south is possible although its total extent remains dubious. The Greeks knew about the Balearic Islands but they didn't establish outposts there, either because they didn't find anything useful or because they were displaced early from there by the Punics. Sagunto in the Valencian coast is also often cited as being of Greek origin but that is also in doubt and its importance is overestated because of its role in the origin of the II Punic War centuries later.

Greek presence was more definitive in what is now the province of Alicante where the Phoceans founded a colony known as Hemeroskopeion. Ironically, its location is not definitive either although it is often assumed to be what is now Denia, nor is its foundation date clear. Akra Leuke, i.e. Alicante itself is also often listed as a Greek colony too but might be of Punic origin instead. Greek influence was high enough to lead to the adoption of a "Greek-Iberian" alphabet by the local Iberian tribes in the area that was used in the 5th-3rd centuries bC, however.

Further to the west the coast was dominated by the Punics, although there was one last Greek colony according to Strabo, Mainake, whose location is unknown but is usually identified with Malaga. Problem is, Malaga is also identified with a Punic settlement, Malaka, and it is possible that Strabo simply committed an error and assumed that the city was of Greek origin when it wasn't in reality.

In any case, as the semi-mythical story reported by Roman historians writing centuries later goes, the Phoceans were approached as allies in the 6th century bC by the King Arganthonios of Tartessos in the lower Guadalquivir, who was angered with the Phoenicians and tried to expel them from Gadir (Cadiz) without success. However, the Phoceans were defeated and the Phoenicians successfully closed the Gibraltar Straits, forcing the Phoceans to trade with Tartessos via a land road that connected it with Mainake. However Tartessos (if it existed) languished and ultimately disappeared by the end of the century for unclear reasons and so did the Phocean presence there (if it really was there to begin with).

So in summation the Greeks in Spain, as in the rest of the Westernmost Mediterranean, were displaced by Phoenician competence hailing from Carthage, and were limited mostly to the northern coast where the Phoenicians were not interested.
 
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