Political organisation of Hispania

The political Organisation of Hispania refers to the territorial and local ordination of the politics during the Roman command on the Iberian Peninsula.

During the prolonged period of government of Rome in Hispania produced substantial changes in the structures of government, as well as in the administrative divisions of the territory that will detail chronologically.

Provincial divisions

All the Roman empire was divided in provinces. Inside these provinces, exerted the government from a capital. The provinces were governed by a pretor, proconsul or consul, depending on the strategic importance or the conflicts of the same. In the case of Hispania and along his history, these structures of government went alternating to measure that the conquest of the territory did effective and, later, in function of the adaptation of each province to the habits and Roman ways of life.

The Roman provinces divided to his time in «conventus» or juridical parties, with headquarters in the most significant cities of the zone.

First division of Hispania in two provinces: Citerior and Ulterior.

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