Hispania Carthaginensis

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Provincia Hispania Carthaginensis
Province of the Roman Empire
298–466
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Capital Carthago Nova
Historical era Late Antiquity
 Separation from Tarraconensis by emperor Diocletian.
298
 Brief Alanic occupation of Carthaginensis
410–418
 Brief Suebian occupation of Carthaginensis
446–456
 Visigothic conquest
466
Preceded by
Succeeded by
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Today part of Spain

Hispania Carthaginiensis or Carthaginensis (Latin for "Carthaginian Spain") was a province of the Roman Empire with its capital at Carthago Nova ("New Carthage", modern Cartagena). It covered the central Mediterranean coast of Spain around the city and its hinterland into central Iberia.

History

Hispania Carthaginensis was created from Hispania Tarraconensis by the emperor Diocletian 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 the Alans from 410–418 until emperor Honorius & the Magister 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 King Rechila. Roman rule was re-established by another Visigothic 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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