a province of ancient Spain, so called from the famed river Baetis, afterwards Tartessus, now Guadalquivir, or the great river. It was bounded on the west by Lusitania; on the south, by the Mediterranean, and Sinus Gadianus; on the north by the Cantabric sea, now the bay of Biscay. On the east and north-east, its limits cannot be so well ascertained as they are very reasonably thought to have been in a continual state of fluctuation, as each petty monarch had an opportunity of encroaching upon his neighbour. The province was divided in two by the river Baetis already mentioned. On the one side of which, towards the Anas, were situated the Turdetani, from whence the kingdom was called Turdetania, though more generally known by the name of Baeturia. On the other side were situated the Baetuli, Baetetani, and Contentani, along the Mediterranean coasts. The Baetuli were supposed to be of Phoenician extract, and dwelt along the coasts of the Mediterranean, till, driven from thence by the Moors, they fled into the mountainous parts of Galicia, which they then called from their own name Baetulia. The Baetetani were seated higher up, on the same coasts. The territories of both these made part of what has since become the kingdom of Granada; in which there is a ridge of very high mountains, called from the above-mentioned people, the Baetetanian mountains. Mention is also made of their capital Batetiana; a place of such strength, that King Ferdinand was six months besieging it before he could take it from the Moors. The whole province of Baetica, according to the most probable account, contained what is now called Andalusia, part of the kingdom of Granada, and the outward boundaries of Estremadura.