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Province, 117 CE
Hispania Baetica
Senatorial province (proconsul)Capital: CordubaRoman since 27 BCE
The richest Spanish province, named for the Baetis (Guadalquivir) river that carried its olive oil to Rome — so much of it that the amphorae stamps recovered from Monte Testaccio, Rome's broken-pottery hill, are mostly Baetican. Trajan and Hadrian both had family roots here, at Italica just upriver from Corduba.
Created in Augustus's 27 BCE division of Hispania into three provinces.
Cities on the map
30 places on the map
- Algeciras Fish Salting Factory · Garum Factory
- Almaden Mercury Mines · Mine
- Almunecar Garum Factory · Garum Factory
- Amphitheatre of Italica · Amphitheater
- Arva Amphora Kilns · Kiln
- Baelo Claudia Fish Salting Factories · Garum Factory
- Battle of Munda · Battle
- Carmona Roman Necropolis · Necropolis
- Carteia Fish Salting Factory · Garum Factory
- City Walls of Corduba · Wall
- Colonial Forum of Corduba · Forum
- Elephant Tomb · Tomb
- Embalse del Judío Amphora Kilns · Kiln
- Gades Salt Works · Salina
- Isturgi Terra Sigillata Workshops · Kiln
- Las Delicias Amphora Kilns · Kiln
- Macael Marble Quarries · Quarry
- Malaga Roman Fish Salting Factory · Garum Factory
- Munigua Roman Mining Town · Mine
- Rio Tinto Mines · Mine
- Roman Bridge of Corduba · Bridge
- Roman Mausoleums of Puerta de Gallegos · Mausoleum
- Roman Temple of Calle Claudio Marcelo · Temple
- Roman Theatre of Corduba · Theater
- Sotiel Coronada Copper Mines · Mine
- Temple of Hercules Gaditanus · Temple
- Temple of the Deified Trajan · Temple
- Tharsis Mines · Mine
- Tomb of Servilia · Tomb
- Villa of El Ruedo · Villa
Sources
- Strabo, Geography 3.2
- Rodríguez-Almeida, Il Monte Testaccio
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