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
And this is the greatest feare that the Spaniardes have, to witt, our plantinge in those partes and joyning with those savages, their neighbours, in Florida, and on the northe side of Nova Hispania.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Hakluyt, Richard
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