Bergistani
The Bergistani (also Bargusii ) were an ancient tribe in the Hispania Tarraconensis (in today's Spanish region of Catalonia ) , probably related to the Ilergetes . At the beginning of the Second Punic War , Hannibal , who was on the march to Italy, passed through in 218 BC. BC the area of the people called Bargusii by Polybius and Titus Livius on this occasion and subjugated it. During the early epoch of the Roman conquest of Hispania , the tribe now called Bergistani by Livy , who tried to oppose, became in 195 BC. Defeated by the consul Cato the Elder .
Livy mentions that the Bergistani owned several fortresses. Their main fortress, Castrum Bergium , could correspond to today's city of Berga .
literature
- Pedro Barceló : Bergistani. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 2, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01472-X , Sp. 573.
- Emil Huebner : Bargusii . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 15.
- Emil Huebner: Bergistani . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 292.
Remarks
- ↑ Polybios 3, 35, 2ff .; Livy 21, 19, 7 and 21, 23, 2.
- ↑ Livius 34, 16ff.
- ↑ Mentioned in Livius 34, 21, 1.
- ^ Emil Huebner: Bergistani . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 292.