 It is a mother of judges and princes; it has given Trajan, Hadrian, and Theodosius to the Empire.With time, the name Hispania was used to describe the collective names of the Iberian Peninsula kingdoms of the Middle Ages, which came to designate all of the Iberian Peninsula plus the Balearic Islands.During the first stages of Romanization, the peninsula was divided in two by the Romans for administrative purposes.