• Thumbnail for Spania
    Spania (Latin: Provincia Spaniae) was a province of the Eastern Roman Empire from 552 until 624 in the south of the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic...
    25 KB (3,329 words) - 14:09, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hispania
    continued to be used geographically and politically in the Visigothic Spania, as shown in the expression laus Hispaniae, 'Praise to Hispania', to describe...
    49 KB (5,780 words) - 17:03, 9 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Visigothic Kingdom
    emperor Justinian I to send an army and carve out the small province of Spania for the Byzantine Empire along the coast of southern Spain. Agila was eventually...
    65 KB (5,812 words) - 08:11, 5 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lusitania
    synonymous with Portugal, despite the province's capital being located in modern Mérida, Spain. The etymology of the name of the Lusitani (who gave the Roman province...
    35 KB (3,116 words) - 15:27, 10 July 2024
  • controlled by the Moors was called, for centuries, Al Ándalus or alternatively Spania, although the process of Reconquest ended up eliminating these names. The...
    54 KB (5,727 words) - 20:35, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kingdom of Asturias
    apocalypse. aeon. As Elipandus describes in his Letter from the bishops of Spania to their brothers in Gaul, the abbot of Santo Toribio went so far as to...
    64 KB (8,440 words) - 03:21, 18 July 2024
  • Madrid, 7-14. Martín, Jose Carlos (2007) "Los Chronica Byzantia-Arabica", e-Spania (online) English translation of the Chronicle by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi...
    4 KB (553 words) - 12:27, 8 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spain
    Hispania is uncertain, although the Phoenicians referred to the region as Spania (meaning "Land of rabbits"), therefore, the most accepted theory is the...
    241 KB (22,934 words) - 17:49, 9 August 2024
  • 40 (1975), pp. 129–179. M.J. Viguera Molina, "The Muslim settlement of Spania/al-Andalus", p. 13-38 in The Foundation of al-Andalus. Part 1: History and...
    21 KB (2,914 words) - 13:20, 12 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Visigoths
    lost to representatives of the Byzantine Empire (to form the province of Spania) who had been invited in to help settle this Visigothic dynastic struggle...
    63 KB (8,164 words) - 23:26, 5 August 2024