Conisturgis : From the place-name ibero-Phoenician ( t ) urgis equivalent to Celtic -briga and Latin oppidum and castrum, fortress, fortified city, city of the cones, pre-Roman Hispanic village of the southwestern peninsular, founded around the 7th century a. D. C. along the Guadiana River and related to Tartessos. In the year 79 a. D. C. it was refounded by the Roman proconsul Quintus Caecilius Metellus with the installation there of camp Metellinum which over time and the sonorization of the t was transformed into Medellin, homeland girl of Hernán Cortés.