Roman province in Hispania during the Roman Republic
Hispania Citerior
Province of the Roman Republic
197 BC–19 BC
Hispania Citerior in 197 BC (in orange)[citation needed]
Capital
Carthago Nova
Historical era
Antiquity
• Established
197 BC
• Disestablished
19 BC
Succeeded by
Hispania Tarraconensis
Today part of
Spain
Hispania Citerior (English: "Hither Iberia", or "Nearer Iberia") was a Roman province in Hispania during the Roman Republic. It was on the eastern coast of Iberia down to the town of Cartago Nova, today's Cartagena in the autonomous community of Murcia, Spain. It roughly covered today's Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia and Valencia. Further south was the Roman province of Hispania Ulterior ("Further Spain" or "Further Iberia"), named as such because it was further away from Rome.
The two provinces were established in 197 BC, four years after the end of the Second Punic War (218–201 BC). During this war Scipio Africanus defeated the Carthaginians at the Battle of Ilipa (near Seville) in 206 BC. This led to the Romans taking over the Carthaginian possessions in southern Spain and on the east coast up to the River Ebro. Several governors of Hispania Citerior commanded wars against the Celtiberians who lived to the west of this province. In the late first century BC Augustus reorganised the Roman provinces in Hispania. Hispania Citerior was replaced by the larger province of Hispania Tarraconensis, which included the territories the Romans had subsequently conquered in central, northern and north-western Hispania. Augustus also renamed Hispania Ulterior as Hispania Baetica and created a third province, Hispania Lusitania.
HispaniaCiterior (English: "Hither Iberia", or "Nearer Iberia") was a Roman province in Hispania during the Roman Republic. It was on the eastern coast...
the Roman Republic, Hispania was divided into two provinces: HispaniaCiterior and Hispania Ulterior. During the Principate, Hispania Ulterior was divided...
presence in southern and eastern Hispania. In 197 BC, the Romans established two Roman provinces. These were HispaniaCiterior (Nearer Spain) along most of...
its conquest. These two regions were HispaniaCiterior (Nearer Hispania) and Hispania Ulterior (Further Hispania). The boundary was generally along a...
controversy. He soon set sail for his appointed province, HispaniaCiterior. In his campaign in Hispania, Cato behaved in keeping with his reputation of untiring...
Peninsula, as the capital, successively, of the Roman provinces of HispaniaCiterior and Hispania Tarraconensis. The Archaeological Complex of Tàrraco is a UNESCO...
province HispaniaCiterior Tarraconensis was established in the reign of Augustus as the direct successor of the Roman Republican province of Hispania Citerior...
Sempronius Tuditanus and M. Helvius divide the peninsula into Hispania Ulterior and HispaniaCiterior (the one actually controlled by Rome). These two provinces...
Hispania Nova (Latin for "New Hispania") can mean: Two Roman provinces Hispania Nova Citerior Antoniniana ("New Hither Hispania of Antoninus"), established...
It was a twenty-year conflict between the Celtiberian tribes of HispaniaCiterior and the Roman government. It began in 154 BC as a revolt of the Celtiberians...
72 BC the entire region had become part of the Roman province of HispaniaCiterior. The subjugated Celtiberians waged a protracted struggle against the...
Celtiberian tribes of HispaniaCiterior from 181 to 133 BC. The Roman conquest of the peninsula was completed in 19 BC. Hispania was the name used for...
provinces, Hispania Baetica and Hispania Lusitania, while HispaniaCiterior was renamed Hispania Tarraconensis. This division of Hispania explains the...
rebellion of the Iberian peoples of the provinces Citerior and Ulterior, created shortly before in Hispania by the Roman state to regularize the government...
five tribes, which lived in a large area of east central Hispania, to the west of HispaniaCiterior. The eastern part of their territory shared a stretch...
divided between the new provinces of Hispania Ulterior and HispaniaCiterior. The capital of HispaniaCiterior was principally Carthago Nova but Strabo...
Republic, Hispania remained divided like Gaul into a "Nearer" and a "Farther" province, as experienced marching overland from Gaul: HispaniaCiterior (the...
names HispaniaCiterior and Hispania Ulterior for 'near' and 'far' Hispania. At the time Hispania was made up of three Roman provinces: Hispania Baetica...
forces of the Roman Republic and those of the native population of HispaniaCiterior. The Numantine War was the third of the Celtiberian Wars and it broke...
Hispania Tarraconensis; former HispaniaCiterior (northern, central and eastern Spain), created with the reorganisation of the provinces in Hispania by...
and heir in 569, putting him in direct charge of HispaniaCiterior, or the eastern part of Hispania. The Frankish threat may also explain why Liuva gave...
Marcus Domitius Calvinus (who had taken over HispaniaCiterior from Cotta) crossed over into Hispania Ulterior, he found his passage blocked by the army...
and again in 146 BC and were pacified. In 154 BC, a long war in HispaniaCiterior, known as the Numantine War, was begun by the Celtiberians. It lasted...
and drive him from Hispania Ulterior. Prior to Metellus' arrival, Domitius, propraetor of HispaniaCiterior, marched to Hispania Ulterior to put down...
capital at the outset of the HispaniaCiterior during the Roman Republic, and later the very extensive HispaniaCiterior Tarraconensis Province. Possibly...
rebellion in Hispania, where he was joined by other Marian survivors like Perpenna. Supported by local tribes, he took control of HispaniaCiterior, then forced...
provinces divided in juridical convents: Hispania Ulterior Baetica Hispania Ulterior Lusitania HispaniaCiterior Tarraconensis Diocese Hispaniarum (3rd...
List of governors of Hispania Tarraconensis, also known as HispaniaCiterior. This imperial province was created from Hispania Ulterior in 27 BC, and...
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