Lacetani

Last updated
The Iberian Peninsula in the 3rd century BC Iberia 300BC-en.svg
The Iberian Peninsula in the 3rd century BC

The Lacetani were an ancient Iberian (pre-Roman) people of the Iberian Peninsula (the Roman Hispania). They are believed to have spoken an Iberian language.[ citation needed ]

Contents

The name is mentioned by Pliny the elder, in his geographical description of Hispania Citerior, and the production of second-rate wine. [1] Martial's Laletania or Lacetania connotated with cheap wine and leisure too. [2] Mentions by Livy, [3] Plutarch, and Cassius Dio are in the context of the Iberian revolt. However, there remains some doubt whether their naming is not a corruption of either Laietani or Iacetani , the names of two neighboring tribes. [4] Ptolemy located the towns of Aeso/Isona (Guissona) and Setelsis/Selensis (Solsona) among those in a territory, of the Lacetani or the Iacetani. [5]

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vascones</span> Pre-Roman tribe, namesake ancestors of the Basques

The Vascones were a pre-Roman tribe who, on the arrival of the Romans in the 1st century, inhabited a territory that spanned between the upper course of the Ebro river and the southern basin of the western Pyrenees, a region that coincides with present-day Navarre, western Aragon and northeastern La Rioja, in the Iberian Peninsula. The Vascones are often considered ancestors of the present-day Basques to whom they left their name.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vettones</span> Ancient people of Spain

The Vettones were an Iron Age pre-Roman people of the Iberian Peninsula.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aquitani</span> Ancient group of non Indo-European peoples from present-day France

The Aquitani were a tribe that lived in the region between the Pyrenees, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Garonne, in present-day southwestern France in the 1st century BC. The Romans dubbed this region Gallia Aquitania. Classical authors such as Julius Caesar and Strabo clearly distinguish the Aquitani from the other peoples of Gaul, and note their similarity to others in the Iberian Peninsula.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cantabri</span> Pre-Roman people of ancient Iberia

The Cantabri or Ancient Cantabrians were a pre-Roman people and large tribal federation that lived in the northern coastal region of ancient Iberia in the second half of the first millennium BC. These peoples and their territories were incorporated into the Roman Province of Hispania Tarraconensis in 19 BC, following the Cantabrian Wars.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Turdetani</span> Ethnic group

The Turdetani were an ancient pre-Roman people of the Iberian Peninsula, living in the valley of the Guadalquivir, in what was to become the Roman Province of Hispania Baetica. Strabo considers them to have been the successors to the people of Tartessos and to have spoken a language closely related to the Tartessian language.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Indigetes</span> Pre-Roman people of the Iberian Peninsula

The Indigetes were an ancient Iberian (Pre-Roman) people of the eastern side of the Iberian Peninsula. They are believed to have spoken the Iberian language.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Laietani</span>

The Laietani or Laeetani were an ancient Iberian (Pre-Roman) people of the Iberian Peninsula. They inhabited the area occupied by the city of Barcelona. One of the main thoroughfares of the city, Via Laietana, is named after the Laietani. They are believed to have spoken an Iberian language.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ilercavones</span> Ancient people of the Iberian Peninsula

The Ilercavones were an ancient Iberian (Pre-Roman) people of the Iberian Peninsula. They are believed to have spoken an Iberian language.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Oretani</span>

The Oretani or Oretanii were a pre-Roman ancient Iberian people of the Iberian Peninsula, that lived in northeastern Andalusia, in the upper Baetis (Guadalquivir) river valley, eastern Marianus Mons, and the southern area of present-day La Mancha.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Contestani</span> A Roman ethnonym applied to Iberian-speakers at a given location

Contestani is an ethnonym of Roman Spain of the imperial period. It appears chiefly in the Greco-Roman writers Pliny the Elder, 1st century, and Claudius Ptolemy, 2nd century. Pliny might be considered the more creditable, as he was for a time procurator of the official Hispania Tarraconensis, a province of the Roman Empire encompassing all the north and all the east of the Iberian Peninsula.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lusones</span>

The Lusones were an ancient Celtiberian (Pre-Roman) people of the Iberian Peninsula, who lived in the high Tajuña River valley, northeast of Guadalajara. They were eliminated by the Romans as a significant threat in the end of the 2nd century BC.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Arevaci</span>

The Arevaci or Aravaci, were a Celtic people who settled in the central Meseta of northern Hispania and dominated most of Celtiberia from the 4th to late 2nd centuries BC. The Vaccaei were their allies.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hispania</span> Roman province (218 BC – 472 AD)

Hispania was the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula. Under the Roman Republic, Hispania was divided into two provinces: Hispania Citerior and Hispania Ulterior. During the Principate, Hispania Ulterior was divided into two new provinces, Baetica and Lusitania, while Hispania Citerior was renamed Hispania Tarraconensis. Subsequently, the western part of Tarraconensis was split off, initially as Hispania Nova, which was later renamed "Callaecia". From Diocletian's Tetrarchy onwards, the south of the remainder of Tarraconensis was again split off as Carthaginensis, and all of the mainland Hispanic provinces, along with the Balearic Islands and the North African province of Mauretania Tingitana, were later grouped into a civil diocese headed by a vicarius. The name Hispania was also used in the period of Visigothic rule. The modern place names of Spain and Hispaniola are both derived from Hispania.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Turboletae</span> Pre-Roman people from the Iberian peninsula

The Turboletae or Turboleti were an obscure pre-Roman people from ancient Spain, which lived in the northwest Teruel province since the early 3rd Century BC.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Olcades</span>

The Olcades were an ancient stock-raising pre-Roman people from Hispania, who lived to the west of the Turboletae in the southeastern fringe of the Iberian system mountains.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Turmodigi</span>

The Turmodigi were a pre-Roman ancient people, later mixed with the Celts people of northern Spain who occupied the area within the Arlanzón and Arlanza river valleys in the 2nd Iron Age.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Iacetani</span>

The Iacetani or Jacetani were a pre-Roman people who populated the area north of Aragon (Spain). They settled the Ebro valley, specifically in the area along the Pyrenees. Its capital was Iaca. According to Strabo, their land stretched from the Pyrenees to Lleida and Huesca. It is believed that they could be related to the Aquitanes. They were known to stamp coins. They also appear in the texts of Pliny the Elder and Ptolemy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bergistani</span> Ancient people of the Iberian peninsula

The Bergistani, were an ancient Iberian or Pre-Roman people of the Iberian Peninsula. They were related to the Ilergetes and were not numerous. They inhabited the valley of the Saiarra river in the upper course of the Llobregat in the northern Tarraconense.

Canae was, in classical antiquity, a city in ancient Aeolis, on the island of Argennusa in the Aegean Sea off the modern Dikili Peninsula on the coast of modern-day Turkey, near the modern village of Bademli. Today Argennusa has joined the mainland as the Kane Promontory off the Dikili Peninsula. Canae is famous as the site of the Battle of Arginusae in 406 B.C.

References

  1. Pliny, Natural History , 3.4; 14.8
  2. Martial, Epigrams , 1.26; 1.49
  3. Livy, Ab urbe condita Libri 21.23, and other sections
  4. PD-icon.svg  Smith, William, ed. (1857). "Lacetani". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography . Vol. 2. London: John Murray.
  5. Ptolemy Geographia 2.6.72, reads Akketanoi or Iaketnnoi, but Stückelberger et al note that the Lacetani are probably meant: Stückelberger, Alfred; Grasshoff, Gerd (2017). Klaudios Ptolemaios, Handbuch der Geographie (in German and Ancient Greek). Vol. 1. Schwabe. p. 197. ISBN   978-3-7965-3703-5.