And the truth is even more complex than that. Roman "Hispania" included originally a good chunk of what today is southern France and of the north of Africa, te

And the truth is even more complex than that. Roman "Hispania" included originally a good chunk of what today is southern France and of the north of Africa, territory that nowadays would be in Morocco and Algeria. After the Muslim invasion, (I)spania it was the name the Christians gave to Al-Andalus, the Muslim part of the peninsula, while the Christian northwest preserved the name Gallaecia. In some of these maps, especially in the translation of arab ones, the opposition Gallaecia vs (H(i))spania/Al-Andalus can be observed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfcBE8iEYkc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfcBE8iEYkc The kingdom of Aragon, and therefore "Ispania", included Sicily and Naples too at some point.