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His thirty page work on Rubén Darío appeared in Hispania, 1967 – 68.
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Do you happen to know why they took the name Hispania?
The Dawn Stag, by Jules Watson. Book review Carla 2007
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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
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The word Hispania, these scholars say, has nothing whatever to do with the Carthaginian word span.
Flush: a biography 2004
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Hispania derives from the Basque word espa馻, signifying an edge or boundary.
Flush: a biography 2004
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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
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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
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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
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[20] Hispania Boetica; the Hither province being called Hispania
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
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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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