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 | | Nine years later Rome divided the peninsula into two provinces, Hispania Citerior, in the valley of the Ebro River (northeast), and Hispania Ulterior, in the plain penetrated by the Guadalquivir River (south). |
 | | Under the Romans, Hispania took its final form as three provinces: Lusitania, approximating modern Portugal; Baetica, in the south, approximating western Andalusia; and Hispania Tarraconensis, the central plateau and the north, northwest, and the eastern coast above Cartagena. |
 | | With northern Spain consolidated, Ferdinand, in 1056, proclaimed himself emperor of Spain (from the Latin Hispania), and he initiated the period of reconquest from the Muslims. |
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