towns were founded: Augusta Emerita (Mérida, Extremadura) in 25 BC (it became the capital of the province of Hispania Lusitania; it was probably founded by Publius Carusius); Asturica Augusta (Astorga, province of Leon) in 14 BC (it became an important administrative centre); Colonia Caesar Augusta or Caesaraugusta (Zaragoza, Aragón) in 14 BC; and Lucus Augusti (Lugo, Galicia) in 13 BC (it was the most important Roman town in Gallaecia). The Roman presence had probably increased during the first century BC as a number of Roman colonies were founded in this period: Colonia Clunia Sulpicia (in the province of Burgos, it was one of the most important Roman cities of the northern half of Hispania), Cáparra (in the north of Extremadura), Complutum (Alcalá de Henares near Madrid). Augustus also commissioned the via Augusta (which went from the Pyrenees all the way to Cadiz, it was 1,500 kilometres or 900 miles long). Notes References Primary sources Appian, The Roman History (Volume I: The Foreign Wars), Digireads.com, 2011; Livy, History of Rome from Its Foundation: Rome and the Mediterranean (Books XXXI to XLV)Penguin Classics; Reprint edition, 1976: – See books 21–24, 26, 28–29 and 31–40 Plutarch, The Complete Collection of Plutarch's Parallel Lives, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014; Polybius, The Histories, Oxford World's Classics, OUP Oxford, 2010; Secondary sources in English Curchin, L. A., Roman Spain: Conquest and Assimilation, Barnes & Nobles, 1995; Develin, R., The Roman command structure in Spain, Klio 62 (1980) 355-67 Errington, R. M., Rome and Spain before the second Punic War,Latomus 29 (1970) 25–57 Knapp, R.C., Aspects of the Roman Experience in Iberia 206–100 BC, Universidad, D.L, 1977; Nostrand, J, J, van, Roman Spain, in Tenney, F., (Ed.), An Economic Survey of Ancient Rome, Octagon Books, 1975; Richardson, J. S. The Romans in Spain, John Wiley & Sons, Reprint edition, 1998; Richardson, J. S, Hispaniae, Spain and the Development of Roman Imperialism, Cambridge University Press, 1986; Scullard H. H., Scipio Africanus in the second Punic war, The University Press, 1930; ASIN B0008664N8 Silva, L., Viriathus and the Lusitanian Resistance to Rome, Pen & Sword Books, 2013; Sutherland, C.. H, V, The Romans in Spain, 217 B.C.to A.D. 117, Methuen Young Books, 1971; Wintle, Justin. The Rough Guide History of Spain, Rough Guides, 1st edition, 2003; Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library Administración de las minas en época romana. Su evolución – José María Blázquez Martínez Destrucción de los mosaicos