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Province, 117 CE
Lusitania
Imperial province, praetorian legateCapital: Emerita Augusta
Western Iberia, roughly modern Portugal and Spanish Extremadura, settled with veterans of Augustus's Cantabrian Wars at its capital Emerita Augusta — 'the veterans' city' — around 25 BCE. The theatre and amphitheatre built for those retired legionaries were already a century old by 117 and still in use.
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Sources
- Cassius Dio, Roman History 53.26
- Barrington Atlas
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