Hispania Carthaginensis

Provincia Hispania Carthaginensis
Province of the Roman Empire
298–466
Capital	Carthago Nova
Historical era	Late Antiquity
• Separation from Tarraconensis by emperor Diocletian.	298
• Brief Alanic occupation of Carthaginensis	410–418
• Brief Suebian occupation of Carthaginensis	446–456
• Visigothic conquest	466
Preceded by Succeeded by Hispania Tarraconensis Visigothic Kingdom
Today part of	Spain

Hispania Carthaginiensis or Carthaginensis (Latin for "Carthaginian Spain") was a province of the Roman Empire with its capital at Carthago Nova ("New Carthage", modern Cartagena). It covered the central Mediterranean coast of Spain around the city and its hinterland into central Iberia.

History

Hispania Carthaginensis was created from Hispania Tarraconensis by the emperor Diocletian in 298 as part of his reorganization of the Empire’s provincial system.

The province was peaceful until the invasions of Iberia by nomadic tribes from Eastern Europe in the early 5th century, that in 410 brought the region temporarily under the rule of the Alans. In 418, Emperor Honorius and the Magister militum, Constantius III permitted the Goths to overthrow the Alans. The province went quiet for the next two decades. After the conquests of King Rechila, the region came under the control of the Suebi, in the 440s to 450s. Roman rule was briefly re-established, by another Visigothic expedition in 456, but was lost to the Suebi just a decade later, under the ambitious and war hungry king Euric.

See also

• Roman Spain and Hispania Tarraconensis
• Romanization of Hispania

References

Works cited

• Mariezkurrena, Salvador I. (2002). "«Regnum Destructum et Finitum est Suevorum» la Campaña Gótica en la Península Ibérica del Año 456/457" ["Regnum Destructum et Finitum est Suevorum" the Gothic Campaign in the Iberian Peninsula of the Year 456/457]. POLIS. Revista de ideas y formas políticas de la Antigüedad Clásica (in Spanish). 14: 177–195.
• Zimnowodzka, Anna (2022). Miejsca Kultu Męczenników Hispano-Rzymskich I Wizygockich NA Półwyspie Iberyjskim (IV-VIII W.) [Sites of Veneration of Hispano-Roman and Visigothic Martyrs on the Iberian Peninsula (4th–8th Centuries)] (PDF) (PhD) (in Polish). John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin.