Hispania
Americannoun
noun
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After crushing the remnants of the optimates, the three men divided the Roman Empire between them: Octavian took Italy, Hispania, and Gaul; Lepidus Africa; and Antony Macedon, Greece, and Asia Minor.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
“Hispanic” stems from Hispania, the Roman Empire’s name for Spain, so it refers to the peoples and cultures of Spain and its former colonies.
From Washington Post • Oct. 3, 2019
Property investment company Hispania made a takeover offer for Realia in November for 0.49 Euros per share, a bid that was even lower than Slim’s.
From Forbes • Mar. 9, 2015
Seneca was born around 4 B.C. in the capital of the Roman province of Hispania Ulterior, now the city of Córdoba.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 26, 2015
In 193, as praetor, he carried on a successful war against the insubordinate populations of his recently constituted province of Hispania Citerior.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
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