Hispania is possibly a derivation of I - Shipania , a Punic word . What does this translate as ?
The Latin term " Hispania " was often used during Antiquity and the High Middle Ages as a geographical name for the Iberian Peninsula , but its modern cognates , " Spain " and " Spanish " have become increasingly associated with the Kingdom of Spain alone , after the union of the central peninsular Kingdom of Castile with the eastern peninsular Kingdom of Aragon in the 15th century under the Catholic Monarchs .