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Lusitania
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Lusitania
Lusitania
(, , ) or
Hispania Lusitana
was 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 was named after the
Lusitani
or
Lusitanian
people (an
Indo-European people
). Its capital was
Emerita Augusta
(currently
Mérida, Spain
), and it was initially part of the
Roman Republic
province of
Hispania Ulterior
, before becoming a province of its own in the
Roman Empire
. Romans first came to the territory around the mid 2nd century BC. A
war with Lusitanian tribes
followed, from 155 to 139 BC. In 27 BC, the province was created.
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