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The Roman Republic conquered and occupied territories in the Iberian Peninsula that were previously under the control of native Celtic, Iberian, Celtiberian and Aquitanian tribes and the Carthaginian Empire. The Carthaginian territories in the south and east of the peninsula were conquered in 206 BC during the Second Punic War. Control was ...
The Roman Republic divided in 197 BC. its conquests in the south and east of the Iberian Peninsula into two provinces: [36] Hispania Citerior (east coast, from the Pyrenees to Cartagena), later called Tarraconensis with capital in Tarraco, and Hispania Ulterior (approximately present-day Andalusia), with capital in Corduba, each governed by a ...
It was conquered by the Romans around 121 BC, but was not made a formal province until 81 BC. By the end of the republic, it was annexed into Italy itself. Gallia Transalpina, or "Gaul across the Alps", was originally conquered and annexed in 121 BC in an attempt to solidify communications between Rome and the Iberian peninsula. It comprised ...
Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula (206-19 BC), a process by which the Roman Republic seized territories in the Iberian Peninsula that were previously under the control of native Celtiberian tribes and the Carthaginian Empire.
The first Roman invasion of the Iberian Peninsula occurred in 219 BC. Within 200 years, almost the entire peninsula had been annexed to the Roman Republic , starting the Romanization of Hispania . The Carthaginians , Rome's adversary in the Punic Wars , were expelled from their coastal colonies.
Iberian Peninsula (AD 530–AD 570) The Iberian Peninsula in the year 560 AD The undoing of Roman Spain was the result of four tribes crossing the Rhine in 406. After three years of depredation and wandering about northern and western Gaul, the Germanic Buri , Suevi and Vandals , together with the Sarmatian Alans moved into Iberia in September ...
Rome's conflict with the Carthaginians in the Punic Wars led them into expansion in the Iberian Peninsula of modern-day Spain and Portugal. [127] The Punic empire of the Carthaginian Barcid family consisted of territories in Iberia, many of which Rome gained control of during the Punic Wars.
Invasion of the Iberian peninsula by the Vandals (Silingi and Hasdingi) and the Sarmatian Alans. 410 – Rome is sacked by the Visigoths under King Alaric I. 411 – A treaty with Western Roman Emperor Flavius Augustus Honorius grants Lusitania to the Alans, Gallaecia to the Suevi and Hasdingi, and Baetica to the Silingi.