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...
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continued to be used geographically and politically in the Visigothic Spania, as shown in the expression laus Hispaniae, 'Praise to Hispania', to describe...
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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...
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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...
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controlled by the Moors was called, for centuries, Al Ándalus or alternatively Spania, although the process of Reconquest ended up eliminating these names. The...
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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...
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Madrid, 7-14. Martín, Jose Carlos (2007) "Los Chronica Byzantia-Arabica", e-Spania (online) English translation of the Chronicle by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi...
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Hispania is uncertain, although the Phoenicians referred to the region as Spania (meaning "Land of rabbits"), therefore, the most accepted theory is the...
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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...
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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...
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