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Key facts
- Capital
- Corduba
- Historical era
- Antiquity
- Established
- 14 BC
- Visigothic conquest
- 5th century
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Roman province
- Part of
- Ancient Rome
- Named after
- Guadalquivir
- Country
- Ancient Rome
- Located in
- Hispania
- Capital
- Corduba
- Shares border with
- Hispania Tarraconensis
- Image
- Baetica.png
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- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Andalusia
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 0409-00-00
- inception
- 0014-00-00
- Commons category
- Baetica
- topic's main category
- Category:Hispania Baetica
- applies to jurisdiction
- Ancient Rome
- native label
- Baetica
- replaced by
- Visigothic Kingdom
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Encyclopedic overview
Roman Temple of Cordoba (1st century AD) Emperor Trajan (98–117) Statue of Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (Córdoba) Roman Aqueduct of Almuñécar (Granada) Reconstruction of Maximian's Herculean Palace in Córdoba (late-3rd century) Hispania Baetica, often abbreviated Baetica, was one of three Roman provinces created in Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula) in 27 BC. Baetica was bordered to the west by Lusitania, and to the northeast by Tarraconensis. Baetica remained one of the basic divisions of Hispania under the Visigoths. Its territory approximately corresponds to modern Andalusia.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hispania Baetica” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.