Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula

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The Roman Republic conquered and occupied territories in the Iberian Peninsula that were previously under the control of native Celtic, Iberian, Celtiberian and Aquitanian tribes and the Carthaginian Empire. The Carthaginian territories in the south and east of the peninsula were conquered in 206 BC during the Second Punic War. Control was gradually extended over most of the peninsula without annexations. It was completed after the end of the Roman Republic (27 BC), by Augustus, the first Roman emperor, who annexed the whole of the peninsula to the Roman Empire in 19 BC. Roman acquisition of the Carthaginian territories in south and east Hispania were the result of defeating the Carthaginians (206 BC) during the Second Punic War (218–201 BC). Afterwards, in 197 BC, the Romans established two Roman provinces: Hispania Citerior along most of the east coast and Hispania Ulterior in the south. Over the next 170 years, the Republic expanded its control over Hispania. This was a gradual process...

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