Editing Lusitania (section)

==Legacy of the name==
{{See also|List of things named after Lusitania}}
As with the Roman names of many European countries, ''Lusitania'' was and is often used as an alternative name for Portugal, especially in formal or literary and poetic contexts. The 16th-century colony that would eventually become Brazil was initially founded as "[[New Lusitania]]". In common use are such terms as [[Lusophone]], meaning Portuguese-speaking, and [[Lusitanic]], referring to the [[Community of Portuguese Language Countries]]—once [[Portuguese Empire|Portugal's colonies]] and presently independent countries still sharing some common heritage. Prior to his [[French invasion of Portugal|invasion]] in 1807, [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] proposed the establishment of a French-backed puppet [[Kingdom of Northern Lusitania]] as one of the successor states to Portugal under the assumption that such a campaign would result in an easy French victory.

The province was also the namesake of the North Atlantic Ocean liner [[RMS Lusitania|RMS ''Lusitania'']] infamous for being torpedoed by a German [[U-boat]] in 1915. The ship's owners, the [[Cunard Line]], commonly named their vessels after Roman provinces with the ''Lusitania'' so being called after the Roman Iberian province to the north of the [[Strait of Gibraltar]] while her sister ship [[RMS Mauretania|RMS ''Mauretania'']] was named after the Roman North African province on the south side of the strait.