The Roman world
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Hispania
Hispania is the Roman name for the Spanish and Portuguese lands.
More to know
Carthage held parts of it first. Rome fought there for a long time. Later it was a Roman home. Trajan, Hadrian’s family, and Seneca came from this world.
What happened here
218 BC onward
A war road
Hannibal set off for Italy from the Spanish coast. Rome fought hard to take the land.
AD 98
An emperor from Spain
Trajan became emperor. His family was from Italica in Hispania.
People tied to this place
- Scipio AfricanusHe beat Hannibal and saved Rome’s war with Carthage.
- HannibalHe led Carthage and crossed mountains with elephants.
- PompeyHe was a great general who later lost to Caesar.
- SenecaHe was a writer and a teacher of Nero.
- TrajanHe expanded the empire to its biggest size.
- HadrianHe built a famous wall across northern Britain.