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Provincia Hispania Citerior
Background
Hispania CiteriorProvince of the Roman Republic197 BC–27 ADLocation of Hispania CiteriorHispania Citerior in 197 BC (in orange)[citation needed]Historical eraAntiquity • Established197 BC • Disestablished27 ADToday part of SpainHispania Citerior (English: "Hither Spain", or "Nearer Spain") was a Roman Province in Hispania during the Roman Republic. It was on the eastern coast of Spain down to the town of Cartago Nova, today's Cartagena in the autonomous community of Murcia, Spain. It roughly covered today's Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia and Valencia. Further south there was the Roman Province of Hispania Ulterior ("Further Spain"), which further away from Rome. The two provinces were formed in 197 BC, four years after the end of the Second Punic War (218-201 BC). During this war Scipio Africanus defeated the Carthaginians at the Battle of Ilipa (near Seville) in 206 BC. This led to the Romans taking over the Carthaginian possessions in southern Spain and on the east coast up to the River Ebro. Several governors of Hispania Citerior commanded wars against the Celtiberians who lived to the west of this province. In the late first century BC Augustus reorganised the Roman provinces in Hispania and Hispania Citerior was replaced by the larger province of Hispania Tarraconensis, which included the territories the Romans had conquered in central, northern and north-western Hispania. Augustus also renamed Hispania Ulterior Hispania Baetica and created a third province, Hispania Lusitania.See also[edit]Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian PeninsulaHispania UlteriorHispania TarraconensisHispania BaeticaHispania LusitanaExternal links[edit]Detailed map of the Pre-Roman Peoples of Iberia (around 200 BC)Roman Provincias
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