Hispania Citerior
| Hispania Citerior | |||||||
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Carthago Nova | |||||||
| Historical era | Antiquity | ||||||
• Established | 197 BC | ||||||
• Disestablished | 19 BC | ||||||
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| Today part of | Spain | ||||||
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.
The two provinces were established in 197 BC, four years after the end of the
Hispania Lusitania
.
Etymology
Hispania is the Latin term given to the
hyraxes", in turn a misidentification on the part of Phoenician explorers of its numerous rabbits as hyraxes. According to the Roman historian Cassius Dio, the people of the region came from many different tribes and did not share a common language or a common government.[1]
See also
- Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula
- Hispania Ulterior
- Hispania Tarraconensis
- Hispania Baetica
- Hispania Lusitana
References
- ^ Dio, Cassius. Roman History.
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