Hispania

Hispania was the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula. Under the Roman Republic, it was divided into two provinces: Hispania Citerior and Hispania Ulterior. During the Roman Empire, under the Principate, Hispania Ulterior was subdivided into Baetica and Lusitania, while Hispania Citerior was reorganized as Hispania Tarraconensis.

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Hispania was the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula, which the Romans initially divided into two provinces but later reorganized into multiple provinces as their empire expanded. Understanding Hispania's provincial structure matters because it shows how Rome administered and controlled this important western territory during different periods of Roman rule.

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Country.conventional_long_name: Hispania
Country.common_name: Roman Empire
Country.era: Classical antiquity
Country.status: Empire
Country.government_type: Autocracy
Country.p1: Carthaginian Iberia
Country.s1: Visigothic Kingdom
Country.s2: Kingdom of the Suebi
Country.s3: Spania
Country.today: SpainPortugal
Country.year_start: 218 BC
Country.year_end: 472
Country.image_map: Conquista Hispania.svg
Country.image_map_caption: Timeline of the Roman conquest of Hispania (220 BC–19 BC), with Roman provincial boundaries shown
Country.common_languages: Latin, various Paleohispanic languages
Country.religion: Traditional indigenous and Roman religion, followed by Christianity
Country.leader1: Trajan
Country.leader2: Hadrian

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Commons category: Roman Hispania
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Etymology
Languages
History
Background
Roman conquest
Roman rule
Germanic conquest
Administrative divisions
Economy
Climate
Sources and references
Modern sources in Spanish and Portuguese
Other modern sources
Classical sources
Further reading
See also
References
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Beginning with Diocletian’s Tetrarchy (AD 293), the territory of Tarraconensis was further divided to create the provinces of Carthaginensis and Gallaecia (also called Callaecia, the origin of the name of modern Galicia). All the Hispanic provinces on the mainland, together with the Balearic Islands and the North African province of Mauretania Tingitana, were later organized into the Diocesis Hispaniarum, governed by a vicarius.