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Province, 117 CE

Hispania Baetica

Senatorial province (proconsul)Capital: Corduba

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.

Cities on the map

16 places on the map

Sources

  • Strabo, Geography 3.2
  • Rodríguez-Almeida, Il Monte Testaccio

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