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  • His thirty page work on Rubén Darío appeared in Hispania, 1967 – 68.

    HENSLEY CHARLES WOODBRIDGE 2010

  • Do you happen to know why they took the name Hispania?

    The Dawn Stag, by Jules Watson. Book review Carla 2007

  • It took the name Hispania, but it's identifying symbols such as one would see on a shield are unknown.

    The Dawn Stag, by Jules Watson. Book review Carla 2007

  • The word Hispania, these scholars say, has nothing whatever to do with the Carthaginian word span.

    Flush: a biography 2004

  • Hispania derives from the Basque word espa馻, signifying an edge or boundary.

    Flush: a biography 2004

  • The Digicel crew were picked up from their life raft by an eastbound container ship called the Hispania Spirit.

    Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009

  • The Digicel crew were picked up from their life raft by an eastbound container ship called the Hispania Spirit.

    Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009

  • Hispania, which is Latin for Spain; but as Spain is called by its own people Espana, Hispaniola soon became Espanola.

    Christopher Columbus Mildred Stapley Byne

  • [20] Hispania Boetica; the Hither province being called Hispania

    The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

  • Accordingly, soon after the end of the Second Punic War (about B.C. 198), the Romans proceeded to consolidate their dominion in Spain by dividing it into two provinces, each governed by a Prætor, which were called Hispania

    A Smaller History of Rome William Smith 1853

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