» This article's about the city in Spain.:Italica's also the name of the cultivar group of the species Brassica oleracea, commonly known as Broccoli. Italica may also refer to an Italian oceanographic and freight ship. The city of Italica (Spanish: Itálica; north of modern day Santiponce, 9 km NW of Seville, Spain) was founded in 206 BC by the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus in order to settle Roman soldiers wounded in the Battle of Ilipa, where the Carthaginian army was… (More on Italica)