Berons
The Berons (Spanish: berones ) were a prehistoric, Iron Age tribe who, according to Strabo, lived together with the Autrigones in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC as part of the Celtic migration . Immigrated to the north of the Iberian Peninsula . The name is also mentioned by the ancient historians Ptolemy and Titus Livius, as well as in the corpus of Caesar's writings .
Settlement area
The settlement area of the Beronen on the upper reaches of the Ebro coincided by and large with the borders of today's province of La Rioja . According to Strabon, important cities or larger settlements were Libia ( Leiva or Herramélluri ), Tricium Metallum ( Tricio ) and Varia (near today's city of Logroño ), which is called the capital. The settlement area of the Beronen bordered southeast on that of the Autrigones; the Río Tirón and the Río Oja seem to have formed roughly the border. However, it is also assumed that the Berons moved with their cattle to the higher mountain regions in the hot and dry summer months ( transhumance ), so that one can only speak of permanent sedentariness with restrictions.
Roman invasion
Autrigones and Berons are used as opponents of the Roman invaders under the leadership of the renegade general Quintus Sertorius in the 70s of the 1st century BC. Called BC. The names of both tribes appear after the victory of an army sent by Sulla in 72 BC. BC no longer appears in ancient historiography, from which some researchers have concluded that the populations of both tribes may have been brought into slavery .
literature
- María Angustias Villacampa Rubio: Los Berones según las fuentes escritas . Instituto de Estudios Riojanos, Logroño 1980, ISBN 978-84-735-9093-8 .
- Luis V. Collado Cenzano: La identidad de los Berones bajo la Romanización. In: Berceo Nº 150, 2006.