Hispania Baetica
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Hispania Baetica, often abbreviated Baetica, was one of three Roman provinces created in Hispania in 27 BC. Baetica was bordered to the west by Lusitania, and to the northeast by Tarraconensis. Baetic
Roman Temple of Cordoba (1st century AD)
Emperor Trajan (98–117)
Statue of Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (Córdoba)
Roman Aqueduct of Almuñécar (Granada)
Trajan
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Trajan was a Roman emperor from AD 98 to 117, remembered as the second of the Five Good Emperors of the Nerva–Antonine dynasty. He was a philanthropic ruler and a successful soldier-emperor who presid
Hispania Baetica
…to the inhabitants of Hispania, an honor that secured the loyalty of the Baetian elite and its middle class. Baetica also gave Rome two emperors. Trajan, the first emperor since Claudius to be of provincial birth, though of Italic stock, was born in Itálica (Baetica), a colony established in 206 BC by…
Marble bust, Glyptothek, Munich
A gold aureus of Trajan depicting him alongside his namesake father, c. AD 115
Trajan wearing the civic crown and military garb such as a muscle cuirass, 2nd century AD, Antalya Archaeological Museum
Bust of Nerva, who became emperor following the assassination of Domitian