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Diocese of Spain

Hispania
218 BC–400
Roman provinces of Hispania
Capital BaeticaCorduba
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 (/hɪˈspniəˌ -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.


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