Key facts
- Capital
- Carthago Nova
- Historical era
- Antiquity
- Disestablished
- 19 BC
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Encyclopedic overview
Today part ofSpain
Hispania Citerior (English: "Hither Iberia", or "Nearer Iberia") was a Roman province in Hispania during the Roman Republic. It was on the eastern coast of Iberia down to the town of Cartago Nova, today's Cartagena in the autonomous community of Murcia, Spain. It roughly covered today's Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia and Valencia. Further south was the Roman province of Hispania Ulterior ("Further Spain" or "Further Iberia"), named as such because it was further away from Rome.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hispania Citerior” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.