During the Roman Republic, Hispania Citerior was a region of Hispania roughly located in the northeastern coast and in the Ebro valley of modern Spain. For more information, read the Hispania Ulterior page. Motto Senatus Populusque Romanus Roman provinces on the eve of the assassination of Julius Caesar, c. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Iberian Peninsula. ... The Ebro (Greek: ΈβÏος, Latin: Iberus, Spanish: Ebro, Catalan: Ebre) is Spains most voluminous and second longest river. ... During the Roman Republic, Hispania Ulterior was a region of Hispania roughly located in Baetica and in the Guadalquivir valley of modern Spain. ...
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Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula
Main language areas in Iberia circa 250 BC. This is a list of the Pre-Roman people of the Iberian peninsula (the Roman Hispania - modern Andorra, Portugal and Spain). ...
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Detailed map of the Pre-Roman Peoples of Iberia (around 200 BC)
The Conquest of Hispania and the Province of Tarraconensis
According to the historian Livy, Rome first made Spain a province in 218 BC when the senate declared that Hispania should be one of the two areas (the other being "Africa with Sicily") named for the consuls of the year.
The province of Tarraconensis consisted of northern Portugal and all of what used to be HispaniaCiterior, meaning the eastern coast down to Almeria, most of the interior, and the northern and northwestern parts of the peninsula.
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