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National Numismatic Collection - Spain

Listing URL:	http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/numismatics/spain/spain.htm
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http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/numismatics/spain/spain.htm

Greek contacts with the Iberian Peninsula were known as early as the seventh century B. C. Homer's Odyssey mentions Spain and Phoenician vessels may well have arrived centuries earlier. From the North, Celtic peoples moved into Spain about 900 B. C., settling in the northern part of the country. Later, about 600 B. C., Greeks landed in Spain and established trading posts along the east coast. It took the Romans almost two centuries to conquer the freedom-loving Spanish tribes and to create a Roman province called Hispania from which Spain's present name, Espana, is derived.