Hispania

[ hi-spey-nee-uh, -speyn-yuh ]

/ hɪˈspeɪ ni ə, -ˈspeɪn yə /

Spain.

Example sentences from the Web for hispania

In quem postquam omnium ora conversa sunt, ad unum omnes Scipionem in Hispania proconsulem esse iusserunt.

Selections from Viri Romae |Charles Franois L'Homond
To us, however, it first appears in history as a Roman stronghold, capital of one of Hispania's provinces.

The Cathedrals of Northern Spain |Charles Rudy
Thenceforward their land was part of the province Hispania Tarraconensis with some measure of local self-government.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 |Various
They afterwards called it Hispaniola, a diminutive of Hispania.

De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) |Trans. by Francis Augustus MacNutt

It is said that in the province of Hispania alone (Spain and Portugal) twenty thousand miles of roads were built.

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, Vol. 56, March 1900 |Various

Hispania

/ (hɪˈspænɪə) /

the Iberian peninsula in the Roman world