Lusitania

Lusitania was a Roman province established in 27 BC in what is now central Portugal. The region was named after the Lusitani people, an Iberian group who fiercely resisted Roman expansion in the 2nd century BC. Spain, on the other hand, was gradually conquered by Rome after the Punic Wars, with the peninsula eventually divided into provinces like Hispania Citerior, Hispania Ulterior, Baetica, Lusitania, and Tarraconensis. The Lusitania province's capital was Emerita Augusta (modern Mérida). The RMS Lusitania was a British passenger ship sunk by a German torpedo in 1915 during World War I, resulting in significant loss of life.123