| Province of Spania Provincia Spaniæ | |||||||||
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| Province of the Byzantine (Roman) Empire | |||||||||
| 552–624 | |||||||||
 Roman Spania in 560 CE, following the retaking of the Guadalquivir valley by the Visigoths. | |||||||||
| Capital | Malaca (Málaga) or Carthago Spartaria (Cartagena) | ||||||||
| Historical era | Late Antiquity | ||||||||
• Byzantine conquest by Liberius | 552 | ||||||||
• Visigothic reconquest | 624 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Spain Portugal United Kingdom · Gibraltar | ||||||||
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Spania (Latin: Provincia Spaniae) was a province of the Eastern Roman Empire from 552 until 624[1] in the south of the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands. It was established by the Emperor Justinian I in an effort to restore the western provinces of the Empire.
- ^ Dates vary. Some (Collins) put the date of landing as early as 551, other (Wallace-Hadrill) as late as 554. The conquest of the last vestiges of the province has been dated to 625 (Collins) or 629 (W-H).