Autrigones

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Autrigones
Autrigones

Approximate location of the Autrigones in Iberia according to Ptolemy
Formation time: Unknown. Before the 1st century
Ethnic root: Unknown
Language: Unknown
Major cities: Tritium autrigonum ; Virovesca ( Briviesca ); Deobriga ( Miranda de Ebro ); Uxama Barca ( Osma de Valdegobia ); Portus Samanun / Flaviobriga ( Castro Urdiales )
Limits with: Cantabrians in the west, Karistians in the east
Corresponds to today: Parts of the province of Vizcaya and Cantabria and the province of Burgos .

The Autrigones (more rarely also Autrigonians ) were a Celtic tribe who settled in the north of the Iberian Peninsula before the arrival of the Romans .

Settlement area

Pomponius Mela and Pliny the Elder located the Autrigones in the northern part of today's province of Burgos . Around the year 77, Pliny the Elder mentions Tritium Autrigonum and Virovesca ( Briviesca ) as their capitals among the ten Autrigonian cities. Claudius Ptolemy names the area between the Asón and Nervión rivers as the settlement area . Neighboring peoples would thus be Caristians and Cantabrians . Strabo mentions them in his work Geographica (III, 3.7) under the name allotrigones .

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