Lusitania Lusitania (; ) was an ancient Iberian Roman province located where modern Portugal (south of the Douro river) and a portion of western Spain (the present Extremadura and the province of Salamanca) lie. It was named after the Lusitani or Lusita ...

was an ancient Roman province corresponding to most of modern Portugal. Lusitania, Lusitanian, and Lusitanic may also refer to:

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Lusitanian language Lusitanian (so named after the Lusitani or Lusitanians) was an Indo-European Paleohispanic language. There has been support for either a connection with the ancient Italic languages or Celtic languages. It is known from only six sizeable inscri ...

Lusitanian mythology Lusitanian mythology is the mythology of the Lusitanians, an Indo-European speaking people of western Iberia, in what was then known as Lusitania and Gallaecia. In present times, the territory comprises most of Portugal, Galicia, Extremadura and ...

Lusitanians The Lusitanians ( la, Lusitani) were an Indo-European languages, Indo-European speaking people living in the west of the Iberian Peninsula prior to its conquest by the Roman Republic and the subsequent incorporation of the territory into the Roma ...

, the original Indo-European inhabitants of Lusitania (Proto-Celt) *

Lusitanic Lusitanic is a term used to refer to people who share the linguistic and cultural traditions of the Portuguese-speaking nations, territories, and populations, including Portugal, Brazil, Madeira, Macau, Timor-Leste, Azores, Angola, Mozambique, Cape ...

, the shared linguistic and cultural traditions of the Portuguese-speaking nations

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Kingdom of Northern Lusitania The Kingdom of Northern Lusitania (Portuguese: ''Reino da Lusitânia Setentrional'') was a kingdom proposed by Napoleon in 1807 for the king of Etruria, Charles Louis, located in the North of Portugal. In 1807 Portugal refused Napoleon's demand ...

, proposed by Napoleon for the king of Etruria in Northwestern Portugal *

New Lusitania The Captaincy of Pernambuco or New Lusitania ( pt, Nova Lusitânia) was a hereditary land grant and administrative subdivision of northern Portuguese Brazil during the colonial period from the early sixteenth century until Brazilian independence. A ...

, a Portuguese colony in Brazil

Science

Lusitania (alga) ''Lusitania'' is a genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and bel ...

, a genus of green algae *

Lusitanian distribution In biology, a taxon with a disjunct distribution is one that has two or more groups that are related but considerably separated from each other geographically. The causes are varied and might demonstrate either the expansion or contraction of a s ...

, a disjunct distribution of a species *

HD 45652 HD 45652 is a star with an exoplanetary companion in the equatorial constellation of Monoceros. It was officially named Lusitânia on 17 December 2019, after the IAU100 press conference in Paris by the IAU (International Astronomical ...

, a star named Lusitania

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* S.C. Lusitânia (basketball), an Azorean basketball team *

Lusitânia F.C. Lusitânia Futebol Clube is a Portuguese association football, football club from Lourosa (Santa Maria da Feira), Lourosa in Santa Maria da Feira, Aveiro District. The club was founded in 1924 and competes in the Campeonato de Portugal (league), ...

, Portuguese football club

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* List of ships named ''Lusitania'' * ''Lusitania'' (album), by Fairweather, 2003 *Lusitania, a size of cigar of the Partagás brand *''Lusitania'', the name of a

British Rail Class 40 The British Rail Class 40 is a type of British railway diesel electric locomotive. A total of 200 were built by English Electric between 1958 and 1962. They were numbered D200-D399. They were, for a time, the pride of British Rail's early dies ...

locomotive

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