and utterly Romanized, facts that the Emperor Vespasian was rewarding when he granted the Ius latii that extended the rights pertaining to Roman citizenship (latinitas) to the inhabitants of Hispania, an honor that secured the loyalty of the Baetian elite and its middle class. The Roman Emperor Trajan, the first emperor of provincial birth, came from Baetica, though of Italian stock, and his kinsman and successor Hadrian came from a family residing in Baetica, though Hadrian himself was born at Rome (which some say he made up). Baetia was Roman until the brief invasion of the Vandals and Alans passed through in the 5th century, followed by the more permanent kingdom of the Visigoths. The province formed part of the Exarchate of Africa and was joined to Mauretania Tingitana after Belisarius' reconquest of Africa. The Catholic bishops of Baetica, solidly backed by their local population, were able to convert the Arian Visigoth king Reccared and his nobles. In the 8th century, Baetica became part of the Umayyad Caliphate of Damascus after the Arabs conquered it. The region became known as "al-Andalus". The early 20th-century composer Manuel de Falla wrote a Fantasía Bética for piano, using Andalusian melodies. Proconsuls The Province was governed by a proconsul who had formerly been a praetor. {| class="wikitable" |+ !Proconsuls !Term Start !Term End |- |Gaius Vibius Serenus |20 AD |22 AD |- |Gaius Caetronius Miccio | 37 AD | 38 AD |- |Umbonĭus Silĭo |43 AD |44 AD |- |Marcus Ulpius Traianus |? |Before 67 AD |- |Lucius Lucullus |70s AD |70s AD |- |[? Marcus] Sempronius Fuscus<ref>Unless otherwise noted, governors from 78/79 to 136/137 are taken from Werner Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron, 12 (1982), pp. 281–362; 13 (1983), pp. 147–237.</ref> |78 AD |79 AD |- |Gaius Cornelius Gallicanus |79 AD |80 AD |- |Lucius Antistius Rusticus |83 AD |84 AD |- |Baebius Massa |91 AD |92 AD |- |Galeo Tettienus Severus Marcus Eppuleius Proculus Tiberius Caepio Hispo |95 AD |96 AD |- |? Gallus |96 AD |97 AD |- |Gaius Caecilius Classicus |97 AD |98 AD |- |Quintus Baebius Macer |100 AD |101 AD |- |Instanius Rufus |101 AD |102 AD |- |? Lustricius Bruttianus |Before 107 AD |Before 107 AD |- |[? Titus] Calestrius Tiro |107 AD |108 AD |- |Egnatius Taurinus |between 138 AD and 143 AD |between 138 AD and 143 AD