Celtiberian War
The Celtiberian War denotes a violent conflict between the Romans and the Celtiberian tribes of the Iberian Peninsula . It is divided into the first Celtiberian war (193-178 BC) and the second Celtiberian war (154-150 BC) This was also known as the Spanish War .
prehistory
The Iberian Peninsula was the starting point of the Second Punic War , a conflict between the Romans and Carthage . So for the first time large Roman troops came to the Iberian Peninsula. After its defeat in the Second Punic War, Carthage had to renounce all claims to the Iberian Peninsula, the Romans then judged there from 197 BC. Two provinces a.
Course of war
By establishing the two provinces, the Romans demonstrated to the Celtiberians that they had not only come to the Iberian Peninsula temporarily because of the armed conflict with Carthage, but that they intended to stay there permanently. The Romans were particularly interested in the rich silver deposits that had already lured the Carthaginians to the peninsula. In the same year in which the provinces were established, a Celtiberian uprising broke out. In 195 BC Cato the Elder succeeded in defeating the Celtiberians. In the years 191 to 189 BC BC Lucius Aemilius Paullus put down an uprising in southern Spain. In 181 BC Several Celtiberian tribes rose up with the Lusonern, Bellern and Tittier. After the victory of Tiberius Gracchus d. Ä. the uprising against the Celtiberians collapsed, the treaty with the Lusonians ended in 179 BC. The clashes.
meaning
With the victory of the Romans in the Celtiberian War, they did not yet have the Iberian Peninsula under control. After the defeat of the Celtiberians, there was only a period of 20 years of relative calm, in 154 BC. BC broke with the to 133 BC Chr. Continuous Spanish war again a hot phase in the confrontation between the Celtiberian tribes and Rome. Only Caesar succeeded from 60 BC. From Olisipo ( Lisbon ) to break the last resistance of the Portuguese tribes.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The difficult road to world power: Rome's conquest of the Iberian Peninsula 218-19 BC Chr . 2., unchanged. Ed. Wiss. Buchges, Darmstadt 2007, ISBN 978-3-534-20795-4 ( dnb.de [accessed on January 16, 2019]).
- ^ Sumner, GV: Notes on Provinciae in Spain (197-133 BC) . In: Classical Philology . Vol. 72, 2 (Apr. 1977). University of Chicago Press, 1977, pp. 126-130 .