Σπανία is the Greek rendering of the Latin 'Hispania,' referring to the Iberian Peninsula at the western edge of the Roman Empire. For Paul and first-century Christians, Spain represented the farthest frontier of the known world, the completion of the geographic arc from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth. In Romans 15, Paul expresses his ambition to preach where Christ has not been named, and Spain symbolizes this frontier mission. Whether Paul ever reached Spain remains historically uncertain (early tradition suggests he did), but his stated intention shows the gospel's universal, boundary-breaking momentum.