1.The colony of Augusta Emerita, which became present-day Merida in Estremadura, was founded in 25 B.C. at the end of the Spanish Campaign and was the capital of Lusitania.
11.The sinking of the Lusitania enraged many people in the Allied countries and helped sway opinion in the United States, which was officially neutral, in favor of joining the Allies.
12.At the same time, the Alans established themselves in Lusitania, which would now be Portugal and western parts of Spain and in Hispania Carthaginiensis in southeastern Spain on the Mediterranean coast.