Ibero-Romans or Spanish-Romans ( Latin Ibero-romani, Hispano-romani ) - the population of the Roman provinces of Tarracon Spain , Lusitania and Betica ( Iberian Peninsula ), formed as a result of the assimilation and romanization of the Celtic and Iberian tribes living here (see. Dorim population Iberia ) by the Romans . Latin gradually replaced local languages and dominated with a number of local characteristics.
History
As a result of the defeat of Carthage in the Second Punic War (in 201 BC ), the Iberian Peninsula gradually passes under the control of the Romans. It was the place where the Romans founded their first non-Italian province , so the romanization of the local population is deep and intense. Under Emperor Augustus, as a result of the Cantabrian Wars, the conquest of Spain (27-19 BC) was completed. The process of Romanization was accelerated by the active construction of Roman colonies and the distribution of land for legionaries and Italians. The most romanized part of Spain was the southern part of Lusitania, Betica, and the coastal part of Tarracon Spain. The northern mountain regions inhabited by the Basque tribes underwent the least Romanization.
By the 1st century AD e. the Ibero-Romans made a tangible contribution to the development of the Roman Empire . From Spain come the poets Seneca , Lucan , Martial , Quintilian . The Ibero-Romans gave the empire to many famous emperors - including Trajan , Hadrian , Theodosius .
In 212, all Ibero-Romans, along with the rest of the empire, received Roman citizenship . In the III and especially in the IV century , Christianity spread in Spain.
After the death of the Western Roman Empire, the local Romanized population for a long time was under the rule of the first German tribe Goths , and then the Arabs . Ibero-Romans became the basis for the formation of Castilians , Portuguese , Galician , Catalans , Aragonese , .