Hispania
Americannoun
noun
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He reduced the standing army from 600,000 to 200,000 and provided land for thousands of discharged veterans in recently conquered areas such as in Gaul and Hispania.
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
Similarly in Rome, two centuries sever the Rome which rose from Cannae from the Rome which administered Egypt and Hispania.
From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by J. A. (John Adam) Cramb
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