A map of the Roman Iberian Peninsula that accompanies the feature on Tarraco, capital of Roman Hispania, in Storica National Geographic 212.
This map comes from Storica National Geographic 212 (October 2026) and illustrates the article on Tarraco, modern Tarragona, capital of Hispania Citerior.
It shows the Iberian Peninsula with the Roman provinces of Lusitania, Baetica and Tarraconensis, marked off by dashed lines. Part of Aquitania to the north and of Mauretania Tingitana across the Strait of Gibraltar also appear. Two symbols distinguish the cities: provincial capitals, including Tarraco, Emerita Augusta (Mérida) and Corduba (Córdoba), and the capitals of a conventus iuridicus, the judicial districts into which the territory was divided.
Tarraco was both a provincial capital and the seat of the conventus iuridicus Tarraconensis, the judicial district in which the imperial governor exercised his judicial authority. The map shows the conventus capitals of the 1st century.
Zoom in to read the Latin names of the cities alongside their modern ones, such as Caesaraugusta (Saragossa), Asturica Augusta (Astorga) or Carthago Nova (Cartagena), as well as the main rivers and the relief of the peninsula.
Published in Historia National Geographic no. 212, 2026-10
