Hispania was divided: Hispania Ulterior and Hispania Citerior during the late Roman Republic ; during the Roman Empire, Hispania Taraconensis in the northeast, Hispania Baetica in the south ( roughly corresponding to Andalucia ), and Lusitania in the southwest ( corresponding to modern Portugal ).

Map of the Roman Hispania around 10 BC, Lusitania is colored in orange

Roman Hispania under Diocletian ( AD 293 ); Lusitania found in the extreme west

With Lusitania ( and Asturia and Gallaecia ), Rome had completed the conquest of the Iberian peninsula, which was then divided by Augustus ( 25 – 20 BC or 16-13 BC ) into the eastern and northern Hispania Tarraconensis, the southwestern Hispania Baetica and the western Provincia Lusitana.

| PLACE OF BIRTH = Idanha-a-Nova, Lusitania, Hispania ( now Portugal )

* Agrippa divides Hispania Ulterior into Baetica and Lusitania, and enlarges Hispania Citerior.

Following the fortunes of the Vandals and Suevi into the Iberian peninsula ( Hispania, comprising modern Portugal and Spain ) in 409, the Alans led by Respendial settled in the provinces of Lusitania and Carthaginiensis: " Alani Lusitaniam et Carthaginiensem provincias, et Wandali cognomine Silingi Baeticam sortiuntur " ( Hydatius ).

* In Lusitania, Hispania, the Celtic king Viriathus, rallies Lusitanian resistance to Rome.

In the meantime, Majorian was conquering Hispania: while Nepotianus and Sunieric defeated the Suebi at Lucus Augusti ( modern Lugo ) and conquered Scallabis in Lusitania ( modern Santarém, Portugal ), the Emperor passed through Caesaraugusta ( Saragossa ), where he performed a formal imperial adventus.

Many Roman refugees and deserters joined him, and with these and his Hispanian volunteers he completely defeated several of Sulla's generals ( Fufidius, Domitius Calvinus and to some less-direct extent Thoranius ) and drove Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius, who had been specifically sent against him from Rome, out of Lusitania, or Hispania Ulterior as the Romans called it at the time.

Over time the pool of recruits expanded to Macedonia, Hispania Baetica, Hispania Tarraconensis, Lusitania and Illyricum.

Viriatus ( known as Viriato in Portuguese and Spanish ) ( died 138 BC ) was the most important leader of the Lusitanian people that resisted Roman expansion into the regions of Western Hispania ( as the Romans would call it ), where the Roman province of Lusitania would be established ( in the areas comprising most of Portugal, Extremadura and south of the Douro river in Spain ).

From prehistoric cultures, to its Pre-Roman civilizations ( such as the Lusitanians, the Gallaeci, the Celtici, and the Cynetes, amongst others ), passing through its contacts with the Phoenician-Carthaginian world, the Roman period ( see Hispania, Lusitania and Gallaecia ), the Germanic invasions and consequent settlement of the Suevi and Buri ( see Suebic Kingdom of Galicia ) and the Visigoth ( see Visigothic Kingdom ), and, finally, the Moorish Umayyad invasion of Hispania and the subsequent Reconquista, all have made an imprint on the country's culture and history.

Hispania Baetica was bordered to the west by Lusitania, and to the northeast by Hispania Tarraconensis.

After the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German submarine in May 1915, Lieutenant-Commander Godfrey Herbert, commanding officer of Baralong, was visited by two officers of the Admiralty's Secret Service branch at the naval base at Queenstown, Ireland.

He was told, " This Lusitania business is shocking.

After the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915, public anti-German sentiment was widespread, and Marx's German character was booed, so he quickly dropped the accent and developed the fast-talking wise-guy character that became his trademark.

The German Navy's U-boats were also instrumental in the sinking of the civilian passenger liner the Lusitania on 7 May 1915, which was one of the main events that led to the USA joining the war two years later in 1917.

Ancient Romans, such as Pliny the Elder ( Natural History, 3. 5 ) and Varro ( cited by Pliny ), speculated that the name Lusitania was of Roman origin, as when Pliny says lusum enim liberi patris aut lyssam cum eo bacchantium nomen dedisse lusitaniae et pana praefectum eius universae: that Lusitania takes its name from the lusus associated with Bacchus and the lyssa of his Bacchantes, and that Pan is its governor.

Under Diocletian, Lusitania kept its borders and was ruled by a praeses, later by a consularis ; finally, in 298 AD, it was united with the other provinces to form the Diocesis Hispaniarum (" Diocese of the Hispanias ").

As with the Roman names of many European countries, Lusitania was and is often used as an alternative name for Portugal, especially in formal and literary or poetic contexts.

The 16th century colony, which would develop into Brazil, was named Nova Lusitânia (" New Lusitania ").

In May 1915 while traveling to England on shipyard business, aboard the RMS Lusitania, Hopkins ' tenure and life ended prematurely when that ship was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat off Queenstown on the Irish coast.

The Lusitania incident was among the events that brought the United States into World War I.

He was born around 305, probably near the city of Egitania, Lusitania, in what is the present-day village of Idanha-a-Velha, Portugal, then part of the Western Roman Empire.

After the liner Lusitania was sunk in May 1915, drowning over 100 American passengers, protests by the United States led Germany to abandon unrestricted submarine warfare.

On 7 May 1915, sank the liner RMS Lusitania with a single torpedo hit, although it is debated whether a second explosion was due to flammable cargo or another torpedo.

According to the ship's manifest, Lusitania was carrying military cargo.

After further investigations, it has been confirmed that the Lusitania was in fact carrying ammunition for the allies to use against the Germans.

However, this was not known at the time and the Lusitania was mistaken for a troopship.

During the Roman Empire, the region was part of the Citerior Tarraconese province, except for the south-west portion of it, which belonged to Lusitania.

In Castro de Ulaca in Ávila, a city on the border of the ancient province of Lusitania, a sanctuary dedicated to Vaelicus has been discovered.

The word itself is derived from the name of the ancient Roman province of Lusitania, which covered most of the part of the Iberian peninsula that is today the Republic of Portugal and part of Spain.

Much like other areas of the Al-Garb Al-Andalus ( much of ancient Roman Lusitania ), the peoples under Moorish dominion became bi-lingual, while maintaining their Christian faith ( not converting until much later ).

*" Lusitania " is an ancient name for a region of the Iberian peninsula including Portugal.

Map of the Gulf of Cadis in ancient times, showing part of the Roman provinces of Lusitania and Hispania Baetica | Bætica.

The Lusitano takes its name from Lusitania, an ancient Roman name for the region that today is Portugal.

Lusus is the supposed son or companion of Bacchus, the Roman god of wine and divine madness, to whom Portuguese national mythology attributed the foundation of ancient Lusitania and the fatherhood of the its inhabitants, the Lusitanians, seen as the ancestors of the modern Portuguese people.

Lusitania was an ancient Roman province including approximately all of modern Portugal south of the Douro river and part of modern Spain ( the present autonomous community of Extremadura and a small part of the province of Salamanca ).

Some Portuguese-Canadians adopt the name Luso-Canadians for their local social and business clubs in reference to Lusitania, the ancient name associated with Portugal under the Roman empire.

The Paesuri were an ancient Celtic tribe of Lusitania, akin to the Lusitanians, to whom they were a dependent tribe.

The Tapoli were an ancient Celtic tribe of Lusitania, akin to the Lusitanians, to whom they were a dependent tribe, living just north of the river Tagus, around the border area of modern day Portugal and Spain.

The Turduli were an ancient Celtiberian tribe of Lusitania, akin to the Lusitanians.

The Turduli Veteres, also known as " Ancient Turduli " or " Old Turduli " were an ancient Celtic tribe of Lusitania, akin to the Lusitanians and Calaicians or Gallaeci, living south of the estuary of the river Douro, in the north of modern Portugal.

The Turdulorum Oppida ( Latin-oppidums of the Turduli ), or Turduli Oppidani, living in the Portuguese region of Estremadura ( coastal central Portugal ), were an ancient Celtic tribe of Lusitania, akin to the Lusitanians.

The ancient ruins at Conímbriga, the best preserved ruins in the ancient Roman province of Lusitania.

Remains of settlements from Roman times, when the whole area around Las Hurdes was part of the ancient Roman province of Lusitania, have been found in sites near Caminomorisco.