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One of the first people on record to have anchored his ships in Menorca Mahon was a Carthaginian general in 206BC. His name was Mago, brother of the famous Hannibal. When the Romans named the village Municipium Flavianum Magontanum, they may have been naming it after him.

After the Romans, Vandals and the Byzantines occupied Mahon arrived the Moors, and in 902AD Menorca became part of the Emirate of Cordova. The Moors wanted a harbour closer to Spain, and situated their capital at Ciutadella, but it was at Menorca Mahon where the Reconquest of Menorca began.

In 1287 King Alfonso III of Aragon sailed into the harbour and landed on the Isla del Rei (the King's Island). After defeating the Moors, Alfonso resettled the island. Later more and more settlers came from that eastern province of Spain, so that the language of the island came to be a form of Catalan known as 'Menorquin'. (This has been strongly revived since the accession of King Juan Carlos, and most of the former Spanish street names have been replaced with Menorquin names).