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| Provincia Hispania Carthaginensis | |||||||||
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| Province of theRoman Empire | |||||||||
| 298–466 | |||||||||
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| Capital | Carthago Nova | ||||||||
| Historical era | Late Antiquity | ||||||||
• Separation fromTarraconensis by emperorDiocletian. | 298 | ||||||||
• Brief Alanic occupation of Carthaginensis | 410–418 | ||||||||
• Brief Suebian occupation of Carthaginensis | 446–456 | ||||||||
• Visigothic conquest | 466 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Spain | ||||||||
Hispania Carthaginiensis orCarthaginensis (Latin for "Carthaginian Spain") was aprovince of theRoman Empire with its capital atCarthago Nova ("New Carthage", modernCartagena). It covered the centralMediterranean coast ofSpain around the city and its hinterland into centralIberia.
Hispania Carthaginensis was created fromHispania Tarraconensis by theemperorDiocletian in 298 as part of his reorganization of the Empire’s provincial system.
The province was peaceful until the barbarian invasions of the 5th century that brought the region under the temporary rule of theAlans from 410–418 until emperorHonorius & theMagister militum,Constantius III sponsored a Gothic campaign against the Iranian Alans. The province went quiet for the next two decades until later the Suebi came to rule the region briefly in the 440’s to 450’s after the conquests of KingRechila. Roman rule was re-established by anotherVisigothic expedition in 456, but was lost to the same barbarians just a decade later under the ambitious & war hungry King,Euric.
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