Lusitania

War against Rome

And yet the country north of the Tagus, Lusitania, is the greatest of the Iberian nations, and is the nation against which the Romans waged war for the longest times

Lusitania

!The Iberian Peninsula in the time of [Hadrian (ruled 117–138 AD) showing, in western Iberia, the imperial province of Lusitania (Portugal and Extremadura)](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/IberianPeninsulain125-en.svg/250px-IberianPeninsulain125-en.svg.png)

Lusitania

Lusitania (; Classical Latin: [luːsiːˈtaːnia]) was an ancient Roman province encompassing most of modern-day Portugal (south of the Douro River) and a large portion of western Spain (the present Extremadura and Province of Salamanca). Romans named the region after the Lusitanians, an Indo-European tribe inhabiting the lands.

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