Lusitania (disambiguation)
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Lusitania is the ancient Roman province in western Hispania (or Iberia), corresponding to most of modern Portugal.
The word Lusitania may also refer to:
- Lusitanians, the original Indo-European inhabitants of Lusitania (Proto-Celt)
- Lusitanian language
- Lusitanian mythology
- Lusitanian War, between the Lusitanians and Ancient Rome
- Lusitano, a breed of horses in Portugal
- Lusitanic, which refers to the shared linguistic and cultural traditions of the Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) nations
- Kingdom of Northern Lusitania, proposed by Napoleon for the king of Etruria in Northwestern Portugal
- Lusitania (algae), a genus of green algae in the Coccomyxaceae family.
- Lusitania (planet), a planet settled mostly by Portuguese-speaking Brazilians in Orson Scott Card's Ender series
- RMS Lusitania, the British ocean liner sunk by a German U-Boat in World War I
- Lusitania, a Portuguese liner wrecked on Bellows Rock, south of Cape Point on 18 April 1911.