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Lusitania (Roman province)
Lusitania or Hispania Lusitania is an ancient Iberian Roman province including approximately all of modern Portugal south of the Douro river and part of modern Spain (the present autonomous community of Extremadura and a small part of the province of Salamanca).
It is named after the Lusitani or Lusitanian people (an Indo-European people).
Its capital is Emerita Augusta (currently Mérida, Spain), and it is initially part of the Roman Republic province of Hispania Ulterior, before becoming a province of its own in the Roman Empire.
Romans first come to the territory around the mid 2nd century BCE.
A war with Lusitanian tribes follows, from 155 to 139 BCE In 27 BCE, the province was created.
Member Cities
- Alcántara Extremadura Spain Location
- Augusta Trevorum > Trier Rheinland-Pfalz Germany Location
- Braga Braga Portugal Location
- Cartagena Murcia Spain Location
- Colonia Agrippina > Cologne > Köln Nordrhein-Westfalen Germany Location
- Lisbon > Lisboa Lisboa Portugal Location
- Milan > Milano > Mediolanum Lombardia Italy Location
- Mérida Extremadura Spain Location
- Mértola Beja Portugal Location
- Rome > Roma Lazio Italy Location
- Seville > Sevilla Andalucia Spain Location
- Tarraco > Tarraconensis > Tarragona Cataluña Spain Location
- Tarragona Cataluña Spain Location
- Tarsus Icel Turkey Location