Hispania Carthaginensis
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| Provincia Hispania Carthaginensis | |||||||||
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| Province of the Roman Empire | |||||||||
| 298–466 | |||||||||
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| Capital | Carthago Nova | ||||||||
| Historical era | Late Antiquity | ||||||||
| 298 | |||||||||
• Brief Alanic occupation of Carthaginensis | 410–418 | ||||||||
• Brief Suebian occupation of Carthaginensis | 446–456 | ||||||||
• Visigothic conquest | 466 | ||||||||
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| 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
[edit]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 barbarian invasions of the 5th century that brought the region under the temporary rule of the Alans from 410–418[1] until emperor Honorius and the Magister militum, Constantius III sponsored a Gothic campaign against the Iranian Alans. The province went quiet for the next two decades until later the Suebi came to rule the region briefly in the 440's to 450's after the conquests of King Rechila. Roman rule was re-established by another Visigothic expedition in 456,[2] but was lost to the same barbarians just a decade later under the ambitious and war hungry king Euric.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Zimnowodzka 2022, pp. 35–36.
- ↑ Zimnowodzka 2022, p. 36.
- ↑ Mariezkurrena 2002, pp. 193–194.
Works cited
[edit]- 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.
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