Hispania

American  

[hi-spay-nee-uh, -spayn-yuh] / hɪˈspeɪ ni ə, -ˈspeɪn jə /

noun

Latin.

1. Spain.

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Hispania British  

/ hɪˈspænɪə /

noun

1. the Iberian peninsula in the Roman world

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Hispania

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 some contemporary Latin commentaries the Nueva Recopilación is described as Regiæ Constitutiones; in others as Collectio legum Hispania.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55 1621-1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Emma Helen Blair