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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikjo0, post: 161413, member: 3565&quot;]<b>Ancient Trivia</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Did you know that the emperors Trajan,Hadrian and Marcus aurelius were all born in Hispania,modern day Spain and Portugal? Yes,they were Roman citizens but native Spaniards.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Here is one theory of why Hispania is sometimes shown with a rabbit and where her name came from...(found on The National Zoo Website):</p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />dd: &quot;Until people started transporting them around, European rabbits were found only on the Iberian Peninsula and the south of France. The Phoenicians who arrived in Iberia in about 1100 BC found rabbits in abundance. However they confused these unfamiliar animals with African hyraxes. So the Phoenicians named the area i-shepan-im, &quot;island of the hyraxes,&quot; from the Semitic word for hyrax, shapan, meaning one who hides. From i-shepan-im the Latin name Hispania evolved.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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