Did the romans occoupy spain for seven centuries?

"margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;">The Romans occupied

Andalusia and Catalonia for nearly 700 years. The conquest of Spain

was very gradual. The Romans took over southern Spain from the

Carthaginians in 206 BC and annexed the northern part of the

Mediterranean coast in 197 BC. They took over the rest of Spain

gradually and the conquest of the whole peninsula was completed by

Augustus in 19 BC. The Romans lost Spain to the Visigoths in the

late 5th century AD. The Byzantines, the Romans of the Roman Empire

of the East, retook Andalusia in and held it until 2, when the

Visigoths conquered it again.