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It was completed after the end of the Roman Republic (27 BC), by Augustus, the first Roman emperor, who annexed the whole of the peninsula to the Roman Empire in 19 BC. This conquest started with the Roman acquisition of the former Carthaginian territories in southern Hispania and along the east coast as a result of defeating the Carthaginians ...
The Cantabrian Wars (29–19 BC) (Bellum Cantabricum), sometimes also referred to as the Cantabrian and Asturian Wars (Bellum Cantabricum et Asturicum), [2] were the final stage of the two-century long Roman conquest of Hispania, in what today are the provinces of Cantabria, Asturias and León in northwestern Spain.
The Roman Tower of Hercules is the oldest surviving Roman lighthouse The Roman Aqueduct of Segovia, Castile, Spain. The Roman Temple of Évora ( Liberatias Iulia ), Alentejo, Portugal. Although Hispania is the Latin root for the modern name Spain , the words Spanish for Hispanicus or Hispanic , or Spain for Hispania , are not easily ...
In 534, Roman general Belisarius re-established the Byzantine province of Mauretania with the conquest of the Vandal Kingdom in northern Africa. Despite his efforts, the Vandal king Gelimer had been unable to effect an alliance with the Gothic king Theudis, who probably took the opportunity of the collapse of Vandal authority to conquer Ceuta (Septem) across the Straits of Gibraltar in 533 ...
The Romans were pioneers in the technique of glass blowing. Throughout the centuries of Roman rule over the provinces of Hispania, Roman customs, religion, laws and the general Roman lifestyle gained much favour in the indigenous population. Together with a substantial minority of Roman immigrants, these eventually formed a distinct Hispano ...
Germanic tribes. Goths; Alemanni; Vandals; Carpians; Roman Victory Gallic Empire fails in its attempt to control Hispania (conquered from 261 to 269). Emperor Aurelian re-conquers both the Palmyrene and Gallic Empires, and emperor Diocletian puts an end to the civil war.
Hannibal defeated a combined force of Vaccaei, Olcades and Carpetani, thus completing his conquest of Hispania south of the Ebro with the exception of Saguntum. [4] Beginning of the siege of Saguntum. The city call for Roman aid and the Roman Senate sends envoys to declare the city under Roman protection, which is disregarded by Hannibal. [4 ...
The Roman city of Conimbriga, near modern Coimbra, is sacked by the Suevi. Lusídio, Roman governor of Lisbon, delivers the city to the Suevi. 469 – Teodemundo becomes King of the Suevi. 470 Hydatius, Bishop of Aquae Flaviae, dies. King Euric of the Visigoths conquers southern Gallaecia and Lusitania to the Suevi.