Iberian Peninsula at about 200 BC [1]

The Celtici were a Celtic tribe of the Iberian peninsula, akin either to the Lusitanians and Gallaecians or the Celtiberians, living in what today are the provinces of Alentejo and the Algarve in Portugal, though some migrated north alongside the Turduli. This is a list of Celtic tribes and associated Celtic peoples with their geographical localization The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe, and includes modern day Spain, Portugal, Andorra The Lusitanians (or Lusitani in Latin) were an Indo-European people living in the western Iberian Peninsula long before it became the Roman Gallaecia or Callaecia was the name of a Roman province that comprised The Celtiberians (or Celt-Iberians were a Celtic people of Hallstatt culture Alentejo (ɐlẽˈtɛʒu is a south-central region of Portugal. The Algarve ( pron aɫ'gaɾv(ɨ is the southernmost region of mainland Portugal. Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. The Turduli were an ancient Celtiberian tribe of Lusitania, akin to the Lusitanians, living in the south of modern Portugal,in the east of the Their presence was the result of a third or even fourth wave of migrations of Celts (or other speakers of Indo-European languages) into Iberia. Their migration most likely occurred in the 4th century BC, coming from the La Tène culture. The 4th century BC started the first day of 400 BC and ended the last day of 301 BC. The La Tène culture was a European Iron Age culture named after the archaeological site

Their main cities were Lacobriga (probably Lagos in the Algarve), Caepiana (in Alentejo), Braetolaeum, Miróbriga (near Santiago do Cacém), Arcobriga, Meribriga, Catraleucus, Turres, Albae and Arandis (near Ourique). Lagos ( pron 'laguʃ literally "Lakes" is a city and a municipality at the mouth of the river Bensafrim in the southern region of Algarve Miróbriga is the name of an ancient Roman city located near Santiago do Cacém, in south-west Portugal. Santiago do Cacém ( pron sɐ̃ti'agu du kɐ'sɐ̃j̃ is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 1060 Ourique ( pron o(w'ɾik(ɨ is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 663

Map of the main pre-Roman tribes in Portugal and their migrations. Turduli movement in red, Celtici in brown and Lusitanian in blue.

They appear to be the main group responsible for the "celticization" of the Conii, in the Algarve. The Cynetes or Conii were a one of the Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula, living in today's Algarve and Low Alentejo regions of southern

References

• Mattoso, José (dir. Jose João da Conceição Gonçalves Mattoso ( Leiria, 1933 is a Portuguese medievalist historian and university teacher ), História de Portugal. Primeiro Volume: Antes de Portugal, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 1992. (in Portuguese)
• Berrocal-Rangel, Luis (2005). Portuguese ( or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia (Spain and northern Portugal. "The Celts of the Southwestern Iberian Peninsula". e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies 6: 481–96.  

See also

• History of Portugal
• Prehistoric Iberia
• Timeline of Portuguese history
  • Pre-Roman Western Iberia (Before the 3rd century BC)
  • Roman Lusitania and Gallaecia (3rd century BC to 4th century AD)
• Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula
• Names of the Celts

External links

• Detailed map of the Pre-Roman Peoples of Iberia (around 200 BC)