Autrigones
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Approximate location of the Autrigones in Iberia according to Ptolemy |
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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 .
See also
literature
- Emil Huebner : Autrigones. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 2, Stuttgart 1896, Col. 2611.