Turduli Veteres

Main language areas in Iberia c. 300 BC

The Turduli Veteres, translated as "Ancient Turduli" or "Old Turduli" were an ancient pre-Roman tribe of Lusitania, akin to the Lusitanians and possibly the Calaicians or Gallaeci.

Location

The Turduli Veteres territory was located south of the estuary of the river Douro, in the north of modern Portugal, being neighbors of the Paesuri.[1][2] Their capital was Langobriga, or Longroiva (now Fiães, Santa Maria da Feira); other Turduli Veteres' towns were Talabriga (in the vicinity of Branca, Albergaria-a-Velha) and possibly Oppidum Vacca (Cabeço do Vouga).

History

An off-shot of the Turduli people, the Turduli Veteres trekked northwards around the 5th century BC in conjunction with the Celtici[3][4][5] and ended settling the northwestern area of the present-day Beira, a coastal region situated along the lower Douro and Vacca (Vouga) river basins. Unlike the Turduli Oppidani, The Veteres' appear to have kept themselves independent until the late 1st century BC and it seems plausible that they resisted Lusitani and Gallaeci attempts to incorporate them into their respective tribal federations. They did not fell under Carthaginian rule at the later 3rd Century BC and appear to have not taken part in the 2nd Punic War. It is still not clear if they played any significant role in the Lusitanian Wars of the 2nd century BC. Being less accustomed to foreign dominance than their tribal brethren further south, the Turduli Veteres, allied with the Lusitani and Gallaeci, bore the brunt of the first Roman thrusts into the Iberian northwest. In 138-136 BC Consul Decimus Junius Brutus even devastated their lands and stormed Talabriga[6] in retaliation for them helping the Lusitani. Again the Veteres’ suffered the same treatment in 61-60 BC, when they and their Oppidani neighbours were defeated and incorporated into Hispania Ulterior province by the Propraetor Julius Caesar.[7]

Romanization

They were later aggregated by Emperor Augustus into the province of Lusitania in 27-13 BC.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, IV, 21.
  2. ↑ Pomponius Mela, De Chorographia, III, 1.
  3. ↑ Strabo, Geographikon, III, 3, 5.
  4. ↑ Pomponius Mela, De Chorographia, III, 8.
  5. ↑ Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, IV, 112-113.
  6. ↑ Appian, Iberiké, 73.
  7. ↑ Cassius Dio, Romaïké istoría, 37, 52-55.

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