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Hispania Tarraconensis was one of three Roman provinces in Hispania. It encompassed much of the Mediterranean coast of Spain along with the central plateau and the north coast, and part of northern Portugal. Southern Spain, the region now called Andalucia, was the province of Hispania Baetica. On the Atlantic west lay the province of Lusitania. Image File history File links REmpire-03_Hispania_Tarraconensis. ... Image File history File links REmpire-03_Hispania_Tarraconensis. ... An imperial province was a Roman province where the Emperor had the sole right to appoint governors. ... For other uses, see number 120. ... Map of the Roman Empire, with the provinces, after 120 AD. In Ancient Rome, a province (Latin, provincia, pl. ... Roman aqueduct in Segovia Hispania was the name given by the Romans to the whole of the Iberian Peninsula (modern Portugal, Spain, Andorra and Gibraltar) and to two provinces created there in the period of the Roman Republic: Hispania Citerior and Hispania Ulterior. ... Motto: Dominator Hercules Fundator Andaluc a por s , para Espa a y la humanidad (Andalusia for herself, for Spain, and for humanity) Capital Seville Area - total - % of Spain Ranked 2nd 87 268 km 17,2% Population - Total (2003) - % of Spain - Density Ranked 1st 7 478 432 17,9% 85,70... Roman province of Hispania Baetica, 120 CE In Hispania, which in Greek is called Iberia, there were three Imperial Roman provinces, Hispania Baetica in the south, Lusitania, corresponding to modern Portugal, in the west, and Hispania Tarraconensis in the north and northeast. ... Roman province of Lusitania, 120 AD Lusitania, an ancient Roman province approximately including current Portugal (except for the area between the rivers Douro and Minho) and part of western current Spain (specifically the present autonomous community Extremadura), named after the Lusitani or Lusitanian people. ...

History

The Imperial Roman province called Tarraconensis, supplanted Hispania Citerior, which had been ruled by a consul under the late Republic, in Augustus Caesar's reorganization of 27 BCE. Its capital was at Tarraco (modern Tarragona, Catalonia). 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 modern diplomatic consuls, see Consulate general. ... Augustus Caesar Caesar Augustus (Latin: IMP·CAESAR·DIVI·F·AVGVSTVS)¹ (23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), known earlier in his life as Gaius Octavius or Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, was the first Roman Emperor and is traditionally considered the greatest. ... (Redirected from 27 BCE) Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC - 20s BC - 10s BC 0s 10s 20s 30s Years: 32 BC 31 BC 30 BC 29 BC 28 BC 27 BC 26 BC 25 BC 24... A picture from the air Tarragona Ampitheatre Tarragona is a city located in the south of Catalonia, Spain, by the Mediterranean Sea. ...

The Cantabrian Wars (29–19 BCE) brought all of Spain under Roman domination, within the Tarraconensis. The Cantabri in the northwest corner of Iberia (Cantabria) were the last people to be pacified. The Cantabrian Wars (29 BC-19 BC) occurred during the Roman conquest of the ancient province of Cantabria. ... Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC - 20s BC - 10s BC 0s 10s 20s 30s Years: 34 BC 33 BC 32 BC 31 BC 30 BC 29 BC 28 BC 27 BC 26 BC 25 BC 24... (Redirected from 19 BCE) Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC - 10s BC - 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s Years: 24 BC 23 BC 22 BC 21 BC 20 BC 19 BC 18 BC 17 BC 16 BC... Cantabri was an ancient tribe which inhabited the north coast of Spain near Santander and Bilbao and the mountains behind a district hence known as Cantabria. ... Capital Santander Area â€“ Total â€“ % of Spain Ranked 15th 5 321 kmÂ² 1. ...

Tarraconensis was an Imperial province and separate from the two other Iberian provinces — Lusitania (corresponding to modern Portugal plus Spanish Extremadura) and the senatorial province Baetica, corresponding to the southern part of Spain, or Andalusia. An imperial province was a Roman province where the Emperor had the sole right to appoint governors. ... Roman province of Lusitania, 120 AD Lusitania, an ancient Roman province approximately including current Portugal (except for the area between the rivers Douro and Minho) and part of western current Spain (specifically the present autonomous community Extremadura), named after the Lusitani or Lusitanian people. ... Capital MÃ©rida Area â€“ Total â€“ % of Spain Ranked 5th 41 634 kmÂ² 8,2% Population â€“ Total (2003) â€“ % of Spain â€“ Density Ranked 13th 1 073 050 2,6% 25,77/kmÂ² Demonym â€“ English â€“ Spanish â€” extremeÃ±o/a, castÃºo Statute of Autonomy February 26... A senatorial province was a Roman province where the Senate had the right to appoint governors. ... Roman province of Hispania Baetica, 120 CE In Hispania, which in Greek is called Iberia, there were three Imperial Roman provinces, Hispania Baetica in the south, Lusitania, corresponding to modern Portugal, in the west, and Hispania Tarraconensis in the north and northeast. ... Motto: Dominator Hercules Fundator AndalucÃa por sÃ, para EspaÃ±a y la humanidad (Andalusia for herself, for Spain, and for humanity) Capital Seville Area â€“ Total â€“ % of Spain Ranked 2nd 87 268 kmÂ² 17,2% Population â€“ Total (2003) â€“ % of Spain â€“ Density Ranked 1st 7 478 432 17,9% 85,70...

Servius Sulpicius Galba, who served as Emperor briefly in 68 – 69, governed the province since 61. Pliny the Elder served as procurator in Tarraconensis (73). Head of Galba at the Louvre. ... Pliny the Elder: an imaginative 19c portrait. ...

The Imperial province of Hispania Tarraconensis lasted until the invasions of the 5th century, beginning in 409, which encouraged the Basques and Cantabri to revolt, and ended with the establishment of a Visigothic kingdom. An imperial province was a Roman province where the Emperor had the sole right to appoint governors. ... // Overview Events Romulus Augustus, Last Western Roman Emperor 410: Rome sacked by Visigoths 452: Pope Leo I allegedly meets personally with Attila the Hun and convinces him not to sack Rome 439: Vandals conquer Carthage At some point after 440, the Anglo-Saxons settle in Britain. ... For the cleaning product 409®, see butoxyethanol. ... It has been suggested that Basque diaspora be merged into this article or section. ... Cantabri was an ancient tribe which inhabited the north coast of Spain near Santander and Bilbao and the mountains behind a district hence known as Cantabria. ... The Visigoths, originally Tervingi, or Vesi (the noble ones), one of the two main branches of the Goths (of which the Ostrogothi were the other), were one of the loosely-termed Germanic peoples that disturbed the late Roman Empire. ...

People

When the Romans arrived in the second century BCE, the indigenous Iberian population (cf Basques) had been intermixed with Celts for centuries, forming the Celtiberian culture typical of pre-Romanized Hispania. Phoenecian/Carthaginians colonized the Mediterranean coast in the 8th to 6th Centuries BCE. Greeks also had established colonies along the coast. Then Romans from the three legions stationed there added to the cultural mix of the Tarraconensis. Jewish artefacts exist from the 3rd century. Germanic tribes and North African "Moors" arrived later. It has been suggested that Basque diaspora be merged into this article or section. ... The Celtiberians dwelt in the Iberian Peninsula and spoke a Celtic language. ... Phoenicia was an ancient civilization in the north of ancient Canaan, with its heartland along the coastal plain of what is now Lebanon and Syria. ... This article is about the ancient city-state of Carthage in North Africa. ... The Moors were the medieval Muslim inhabitants of al-Andalus (the Iberian Peninsula including the present day Spain and Portugal) and the Maghreb, whose culture is often called Moorish. // Origins of the name The name derives from the old tribe of the Mauri and their kingdom, Mauretania. ...

Religion

The most popular deity in Roman Spain was Isis, followed by Magna Mater, the great mother. The Carthaginian-Phoenician deities Melqart (both a solar deity and a sea-god) and Tanit-Caelestis (a mother-queen with possible lunar connections) were also popular. The Roman pantheon quickly absorbed native deities through identification (Melqart became Hercules, for example, having long been taken by the Greeks as a variant of their Heracles). Ba‘al Hammon was the chief god at Carthage and was also important in Hispania. The Egyptian gods Bes and Osiris had a following as well.(1) Isis is a female goddess in the Egyptian belief. ... In Roman mythology, Magna Mater deorum Idaea (great Idaean mother of the gods) was the name for the originally Phrygian goddess Cybele, as well as Rhea. ... Melqart (less accurately Melkart, Melkarth or Melgart (greek disposed of the letter Q (Qoppa) replacing it with additional use of K (Kappa) and G (Gamma)), Akkadian Milqartu, was the tutelary god of the Phoenician city of Tyre, as Eshmun protected Sidon. ... Tanit is believed by some to be the name of a Carthaginian lunar goddess. ... Hercules and Cacus, by Baccio Bandinelli, 1525 - 1534. ... Statue of Heracles In Greek mythology, Heracles, or HeraklÃªs (glory of Hera, Î—ÏÎ±ÎºÎ»Î·Ï‚) was a divine hero, the demigod son of Zeus and Alcmene, and stepson of Alcmenes rightful husband and great-grandson of Perseus. ... Baâ€˜al Hammon (more properly Baâ€˜al á¸¤ammon or possibly Baâ€˜al á¸¤amon) was the chief god of Carthage, generally identified by the Greeks with Cronus and by the Romans with Saturn. ... A map of the central Mediterranean Sea, showing the location of Carthage (near modern Tunis). ... The god Bes. ... Osiris (also Asar, Aser, Ausar, Oser, Usire or Ausare) is the merciful Egyptian God of the dead, patron of the past Pharaohs, and the god of fertililty and agriculture in older forms. ...

Exports

Exports from Tarraconensis included timber, cinnabar, gold, iron, tin, lead, pottery, marble, wine and olive oil. Timber Timber is a term used to describe wood that has been processed for use â€”from the time trees are felled, to its end product as a material suitable for industrial use â€”such as structural material for construction or wood pulp for paper production. ... Cinnabar (German Zinnober), sometimes written cinnabarite, is a name applied to red mercury(II) sulfide (HgS), or native vermilion, the common ore of mercury. ... General Name, Symbol, Number gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 6, d Appearance metallic yellow Atomic mass 196. ... General Name, Symbol, Number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 8, 4, d Appearance lustrous metallic with a grayish tinge Atomic mass 55. ... General Name, Symbol, Number tin, Sn, 50 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 14, 5, p Appearance silvery lustrous gray Atomic mass 118. ... General Name, Symbol, Number lead, Pb, 82 Chemical series poor metals Group, Period, Block 14, 6, p Appearance bluish white Atomic mass 207. ... Unfired green ware pottery on a traditional drying rack at Conner Prairie living history museum. ... Marble For the glass spheres, see marbles. ... Wine is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grapes or grape juice. ... In agriculture, olive oil is an oil extracted from the fruit of the European olive tree , which originated in the Mediterranean area. ...

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