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
There were three-and-thirty galleons of Nova Hispania, and three-and-twenty of Terra Firma—that's fifty-six.
From The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR by Leighton, Robert
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