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LUSITANIA

Volume 12 · 62 words · 1823 Edition

in Ancient Geography, one of the divisions of Spain, extending to the north of the Tagus, quite to the sea of Cantabria, at least to the Promontorium Celticum. But Augustus, by a new regulation, made the Anas its boundary to the south, the Durius to the north; and thus constituting only a part of the modern Portugal. Lusitani the people, (Diodorus, Stephanus.)