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Listed in the National Register of Historic Places on January 28, 1988, reference: #87002465. The Bear Down Gym – built in 1926 and located at E. 4th St., in the University of Arizona campus. The gym was originally known as "Men's Gymnasium". [29] Listed in the National Register of Historic Places on October 4, 1990, reference: #900001526.
Tarraco was the capital at the outset of the Hispania Citerior during the Roman Republic, and later the very extensive Hispania Citerior Tarraconensis Province. Possibly around the year 45 BC Julius Caesar changed the status of city to a colonia , which is reflected in the epithet Iulia in its formal name: Colonia Iulia Urbs Triumphalis Tarraco ...
In July 1861, after the American Civil War began, a force of Texan cavalry and Arizonan militia under Lt. Colonel John Baylor conquered the southern New Mexico territory, including Mesilla and Tucson on August 1, 1861, and the victorious Baylor proclaimed the existence of a Confederate Arizona Territory, which comprised the area defined in the ...
Hispania [1] was the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula.Under the Roman Republic, Hispania was divided into two provinces: Hispania Citerior and Hispania Ulterior.During the Principate, Hispania Ulterior was divided into two new provinces, Baetica and Lusitania, while Hispania Citerior was renamed Hispania Tarraconensis.
1956 – Tucson Air National Guard Base active. 1960 University of Arizona Poetry Center founded. Old Tucson Studios theme park and El Con Mall in business. 1962 – Phoenix Title Building constructed. 1963 – Tucson International Airport begins operating. 1964 – Tucson Botanical Gardens founded. 1965 – DeGrazia Gallery built. 1967
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.
Royal Palace of Madrid Plaza de España, Seville. Spanish architecture refers to architecture in any area of what is now Spain, and by Spanish architects worldwide. The term includes buildings which were constructed within the current borders of Spain prior to its existence as a nation, when the land was called Iberia, Hispania, or was divided between several Christian and Muslim kingdoms.
A major city in the Arizona Sun Corridor, Tucson is the largest city in southern Arizona, and the second-largest in the state after Phoenix. It is also the largest city in the area of the historic Gadsden Purchase. As of 2015, the Greater Tucson Metro area has exceeded a population of 1 million.