Hispania Carthaginensis

The Hispania Carthaginiensis, also Hispania Carthaginensis or simply Carthaginiensis ( Carthaginensis ) called, was a Roman province on the Iberian Peninsula.

The Carthaginiensis was established in the period 283-289 by Emperor Diocletian in the context of its reform of the provincial division. Diocletian divided the territory of the vast province of Hispania Citerior, which was called in the imperial period also Hispania Tarraconensis and the north and east of the Iberian peninsula consisted in three provinces:

• The new Tarraconensis with capital Tarraco (Tarragona ), which included only the north-eastern part of the old Tarraconensis
• Callaecia (present day Galicia and at least the western Asturias, perhaps the eastern Asturias and Cantabria )
• The new Hispania Carthaginiensis with capital Carthago Nova (Cartagena).

To Carthaginiensis belonged to the south of the ancient Hispania Citerior and the Balearic Islands. The northern boundary was north of the cities Segobriga, Segontia ( Siguenza ), Uxama ( Osma ), Clunia (Coruña del Conde ) and Pallantia (Palencia ). The limit for Callaecia made ​​the lower reaches of the Esla.

This classification seems to have survived to the end of Roman rule in the 5th century, but the Balearic Islands were in the late 4th century a separate province.

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• Roman province ( Europe)
• Spanish History ( Ancient )