Hispania (esp)

Hispania

Hispania ranks 1,515th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Guelph, West Palm Beach, Florida, and Falun. Memorable people born in Hispania include Theodosius I, Arcadius, and Magnus Maximus. Memorable people who died in Hispania include Herod Antipas, Quintus Sertorius, and Publius Cornelius Scipio. Hispania has been the birth place of many politicians, and writers and the death place of many politicians. Hispania is located in Spain.

Hispania was the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula and its provinces. Under the Roman 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 Hispania Tarraconensis. Subsequently, the western part of Tarraconensis was split off, initially as Hispania Nova, which was later renamed "Callaecia". From Diocletian's Tetrarchy onwards, the south of the remainder of Tarraconensis was again split off as Carthaginensis, and all of the mainland Hispanic provinces, along with the Balearic Islands and the North African province of Mauretania Tingitana, were later grouped into a civil diocese headed by a vicarius. The name Hispania was also used in the period of Visigothic rule. Read more on Wikipedia