Viria Acte was born in Valencia Edetanorum, current Valencia, ca. 90 AD. She was an outstanding woman who, being a former slave, became a successful entrepreneur. She was the owner of a statue workshop that she run herself and that became very prestigious. She received many compliments and honours due to her work and her contributions to the city of Valencia. 

She is not the only woman that we are aware of. Epigraphy has allowed us to know of many other women from the same period and others, what they did and where they were born or lived. They are spread throughout the Hispanic territory. 

Placing on the map of the different Hispanic territories in the 2nd century. 

We will make an itinerary through the different territorial divisions of Hispania through time.  

Here is a brief historical overview of the different phases of the territorial distribution of Hispania.

Take a look at it and choose with distribution matches the period Viria Acte lived in and reflect in on the following map. Place the capital cities of the different provinces and the city that Viria was born in. Use different colours. 

 
Answer the questions:
 
1- When did the province of Gallaecia become an independent one? What province did it split from? 

2- What current cities correspond to the former Roman capital cities of the provinces?