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[haruno]

To those from any of the Earth's represented on ship: Are there any modern equivalents to Hispania outside of Spain and the Iberian Peninsula? Or maybe something called High Spania or Hispain?

[ ooc: Asking from the Media Library over here. ]

Comments

[governorkang]

...Hispania? There is no country called Hispania on Earth.

[haruno]

Really? I thought there was at least a kind of territory called Hispania in part of Earth's history, but to be honest, I'm not making much sense of the records I've been finding.

[governorkang]

Not on the versions of Earth I'm familiar with, at least. They all seem to have the same countries. Why do you want to know?

[haruno]

It's kind of ridiculous, but I'm trying to figure out where Hispanics come from.

[radiantcourage]

I believe that Hispania was a part of the Roman Empire before it collapsed. The modern day equivalent is Spain.

I'm Japanese myself, but I remember some things that were taught at school.

[haruno]

Japanese, as in from Japan, correct?

Then Hispania relates back to Spain again. Is there any other countries it might include outside of Spain?

[radiantcourage]

Exactly.

And... not to my knowledge, no.

[haruno]

Hispania is Spain. What about Hispanic?

[nobel_berserker]

Well, there's Neo-Spain in my Earth. But I don't think that's what you're looking for.

[haruno]

Neo-Spain? Probably not -- at least I don't think so. I'm not even sure what it is exactly I'm looking for, which is part of the problem.

[nobel_berserker]

Yeah, I don't know if I ever heard the word Hispanic. Good luck finding out though!

[haruno]

Thank you! Looks like a few people are willing to help me figure it out, at least.

[neverwastenaya]

As far as I know, it comes down to empires--who conquered who. The Spanish empire spread into the Caribbean Sea islands and most of one continent and part of another, which was called Latin America later on, even though none of them spoke the language Latin, which was long dead by that point. Why they did that and also called the people there Hispanic, I don't know. I think it's marked somewhere under "human weirdness."

[haruno]

Wait, then in Latin America, where they don't speak Latin, they call the people Hispanic, even if they're not living in Spain, because they... maybe speak Spanish?

And where does the America part come in? Is that language related too?

[neverwastenaya]

Hold on. Let me look it up fast.

Okay. Best I got is that America was named after the first guy who decided to slap his name on two continents when he was making a map, so he got dibs.

[haruno]

There are two continents with the same name? Are they both called Latin America?