Hispania

Hispania
218 BC–400
Roman provinces of Hispania
Capital		Baetica – Corduba Ulterior - Emerita Augusta Citerior - Tarraco
Languages		Latin, various Paleohispanic languages
Religion		Traditional indigenous and Roman religion, followed by Christianity
Government
Emperor
•	AD 98 – AD 117	Trajan
•	AD 117 – AD 138	Hadrian
•	AD 379 to AD 395	Theodosius I
Legislature		Roman Senate
Historical era		Classical antiquity
•	Established	218 BC
•	Disestablished	400
Population
•	est.	5,000,000 or more
Preceded by Succeeded by Carthaginian Iberia Visigothic Kingdom Kingdom of the Suebi

Hispania (/hɪˈspeɪniəˌ -ˈspæ-/; Latin: [hɪˈspaːnja]) was the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula. Under the Republic, Hispania was divided into two provinces: Hispania Citerior and Hispania Ulterior. During the Principate, Hispania Ulterior was divided into two new provinces, Baetica and Lusitania, while Hispania Citerior was renamed Tarraconensis. Subsequently, the western part of Tarraconensis was split off, first as Hispania Nova, later renamed Callaecia (or Gallaecia, whence modern Galicia). From Diocletian's Tetrarchy (AD 284) onwards, the south of remaining Tarraconensis was again split off as Carthaginensis, and probably then too the Balearic Islands and all the resulting provinces formed one civil diocese under the vicarius for the Hispaniae (that is, the Celtic provinces). The name, Hispania, was also used in the period of Visigothic rule.