The territory that is modern-day Portugal would be Romanized in the sequence of the Second Punic War (3rd century BCE), through the Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula. The Romans would found cities as well as Romanize some previously existing settlements. As a general rule, cities with names ending in -briga are thought to have existed before the Romanization of the territory, but that is not always the case (e.g., Augustobriga, near Cáceres, Spain, clearly refers to Augustus, thus it is possible that some -briga names were still being given to cities during the Roman rule).