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The Romanization of Hispania is the process by which Roman or Latin culture was introduced into the Iberian Peninsula during the period of Roman rule. Glass jar, at the Museum of Valladolid . The Romans were pioneers in the technique of glass blowing.
English: Map of the Roman conquest of Hispania, from the beginning of the Second Punic War (218 BC) until the beginning of the Cantabrian Wars (29 BC). It contains simplified territorial conquests, the original division between the provinces of Hispania Citerior and Hispania Ulterior and location of the main pre-Roman peoples.
Those tribes that survived took over existing Roman institutions, and created successor-kingdoms to the Romans in various parts of Europe. Hispania was taken over by the Visigoths after 410. [24] At the same time, there was a process of "Romanization" of the Germanic and Hunnic tribes.
The Latin term Hispania, often used during Antiquity and the Low Middle Ages, like with Roman Hispania, as a geographical and political name, continued to be used geographically and politically in the Visigothic Spania, as shown in the expression laus Hispaniae, 'Praise to Hispania', to describe the history of the peoples of the Iberian ...
Español: Anfiteatro de la antigua ciudad romana de Itálica, hoy perteneciente al municipio de Santiponce, cerca de Sevilla, España.El anfiteatro se construyó durante el reinado del emperador Adriano (117-138) y, con capacidad para 25,000 espectadores, fue uno de los mayores anfiteatros del Imperio Romano.
Latifundia also expanded to the Roman provinces of Mauretania (modern Maghreb) and in Hispania Baetica (modern Andalusia) with conquest of those areas. [citation needed] The latifundia distressed Pliny the Elder (died AD 79) as he travelled, seeing only slaves working the land, not the sturdy Roman farmers who had been the backbone of the ...
Hispania, the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula, included what is now Spain, Portugal, Andorra, and the southernmost part of France. [11] When Augustus went to Spain between 16 and 13 BC, he saw the need for roads and ordered the construction of the Via Augusta, the longest and most important road in Hispania.