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lusitanian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lusitanian \Lu`si*ta"ni*an\, a. Pertaining to Lusitania, the ancient name of the region almost coinciding with Portugal. -- n. One of the people of Lusitania.
Wiktionary
a. (alternative spelling of Lusitanian English)
Wikipedia
Lusitanian may refer to:
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Lusitanians, an ancient people of western Iberian Peninsula.
- Lusitanian language, the language of the ancient Lusitanians.
- Lusitanian mythology, the mythology of the ancient Lusitanians.
- Lusitanian War, the war between Ancient Rome and the ancient Lusitanians.
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Lusitania, a Roman province in western Iberian Peninsula.
- Lusitania, New Latin designation of Portugal.
- Something Portuguese.
- Lusitania, New Latin designation of Portugal.
- RMS Lusitania, an ocean liner that was sunk by German U-Boats during World War I.
- Lusitanian distribution, in biology, a type of disjunct distribution of certain species.
Usage examples of "lusitanian".
Spanish army was just that, forty thousand Lusitanian and Celtiberian tribesmen whom Sertorius and Hirtuleius had painfully but successfully trained to fight like Roman legions.
Roman armies were employed in Spain, one in the north against the Celtiberians, and the other in the south against Viriathus and the Lusitanians.
As we have frequently proved, none of the Lusitanian charts known commit that extraordinary mistake, which may be considered as the touchstone of Lusitano-Germanic maps.
Lusitanian ships which early in the year 1503 went to the country discovered by Rodrigo de Bastidas, and returned to Lisbon loaded with dyewood and Indian slaves.
There was in the town a strong party of Pompeians, who, displeased to see Caesar's troops received within the walls, secretly deputed one Philo, a zealous partisan of Pompey, and well known in Lusitania, to beg assistance of Cecilius Niger, one of the barbarians, who lay encamped near Lenius, with a strong army of Lusitanians.
They who had gone out to get forage or corn, were chased by the light troops of the Lusitanians, and the targeteers of Hither Spain, who were well acquainted with the country, and could readily swim across the river, because it is the custom of all those people not to join their armies without bladders.