What is Spania?
{{distinguish|Hispania|Spain}} {{no sources|date=June 2024}} {{Infobox Former Subdivision | native_name = {{aut|Provincia Spaniæ}} | conventional_long_name = Province of Spania | common_name = Province of Spania | subdivision = Province | nation = the [[Byzantine Empire]] | era = Late Antiquity | capital = [[Malaga|Málaga]] or [[Cartagena]] | image_map = Iberia 560.svg | image_map_caption = Spania in [[green]] | year_start = 552 | event_start = Byzantine reconquest by [[Liberius (praetorian prefect)|Liberius]] | year_end = 624 | event_end = Visigothic reconquest | p1 = Kingdom of the Visigoths | flag_p1 = CoronaRecesvinto01.JPG | s1 = Kingdom of the Visigoths | flag_s1 = CoronaRecesvinto01.JPG | today = [[UK]]<br>{{·}}[[Gibraltar]]<br>[[Portugal]]<br>[[Spain]] }} '''Spania''' ({{lang-la|Provincia Spaniae}}) was a [[Roman province|province]] of the [[Byzantine Empire]] (Eastern Roman Empire) from 552 until 624.<ref>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).</ref> Spania was created after the [[Western Roman Empire|fall of the Western Roman Empire]]. During this time, [[Visigoths|Visgothic]] and [[Suebi]] people had took over the [[Iberian Peninsula]]. == History == {{main|Western Roman Empire|Byzantine Empire}} [[File:Justinian555AD.png|thumb|the Byzantine Empire in 555 CE]] [[List of Byzantine emperors|Byzantine emperor]] [[Justinian I]] tried to restore the western provinces of the Empire. Spania was established in what is now the [[Balearic Islands]] and southern [[Andalusia]]. == Notes == <references /> [[Category:Byzantine Empire]] [[Category:550s establishments]] [[Category:7th-century disestablishments]]