Ethnologic Map of Pre-Roman Iberia (circa 200 B.C.). NEW VERSION #10

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Author

Luís Fraga da Silva

Associação Campo Arqueológico de Tavira, Tavira, Portugal

www.arqueotavira.com

[email-masked]

Language

Portuguese and Latin.

Abstract

Represented geographic information:

1.       Basic geography

·        Coastal boundaries

·        Main hidrography

2.       Major ethno-geographic groups, represented by delimited territories and name identity

·        Primary geographic-delimited ethnic groups (e.g. VASCONES).

·        Greater social formations of mixed ethnic origin and shared socio-political and cultural environment (e.g. TURDETANOS)

·        Territories of majority of  specific ethnic-linguistic groups (e.g. CELTICOS).

3.       Secondary ethnic and gentilician communities with toponymic, territorial and political identity, excluding smaller later oppida-centered civitates. (e.g. TITOS).

4.       Pre-Roman urban centers:

·        Native towns with recognized urban status in the beginning of Roman domination through specific coin emissions,  identified by location and language of emission.

·        Phoenician, Greek and Punic (Carthaginian) colonial foundations, still surviving in the end of the 2d Punic War. Only major places are identified. Towns of doubtful status and "factories" are not represented.

·        Other selected urban centers, referred by historical sources, identified by name.

5.       Colonial territories

·        Coastal area of the "Circle of the Straight", economic and cultural commonwealth centred in Gadir/Gades.

·        Geopolitical areas of colonization, territorial domination and political-military influence of Carthage, before the end of the 2d Punic War.

6.       Greater surviving dominant linguistic groups and linguistic complexes.

·        Native Iberian languages, non-indo-european and of doubtful origin: Proto-Basque, Eastern Iberian, Southern Iberian and Tartessic (Southwestern Iberian). This last one was residual by 200 B.C., replaced by celtian in most of its original territory.

·        Pre-celt indo-european (Lusitanian group). Other primitive indo-european languages were, by then, probably only toponymic.

·        Colonial languages: Libio-phoenician. African-punic dialects brought by colonialist populations settled by Carthage.

·        Celtian and Celtiberian evolutions. The whole "celt" spectrum is present in Iberia, from early "urn-field" to late "La Tène". Gaulish migrations continued until mid I B.C. Central iberia (Celtiberia) was a diffusion center of later celt movements to the North West and, specially, to the Tartessic-Turdetan South.

7.       Romanization

·        Military frontier in 194 B.C. (after the Carthaginian defeat in Iberia) and 156 B.C. (before the Lusitanian/Celtiberian Wars)

·        Roman Provinces after the 2nd territorial reorganization of August (before 7 B.C.).

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