The origin of the word Hispania is very disputed. The evidence for the various speculations is based merely upon what are at best mere resemblances, likely to be accidental, and … See more

Latin was the official language of Hispania during Roman rule, which exceeded 600 years. By the empire's end in Hispania around 460 AD, all the original Iberian languages, except … See more

Roman armies invaded the Iberian peninsula in 218 BC and used it as a training ground for officers and as a proving ground for … See more

The Umayyad governor Tariq ibn Ziyad led a raiding force of approximately 1,700 men from North Africa to southern Hispania in April 711. They defeated the Visigothic army, in a decisive See more

The Iberian peninsula has long been inhabited, first by early hominids such as Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis and Homo antecessor. In the Paleolithic period, the See more

After its defeat by the Romans in the First Punic War (264 BC–241 BC), Carthage compensated for its loss of Sicily by rebuilding a … See more

The undoing of Roman Spain was the result of four tribes crossing the Rhine in 406. After three years of depredation and wandering about … See more