Turduli

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The Iberian Peninsula in the 3rd century BC.

The Turduli (Greek Tourduloi) or Turtuli were an ancient pre-Roman people of the southwestern Iberian Peninsula.

Location

The Turduli tribes lived mainly in the south and centre of modern Portugal – in the east of the provinces of Beira Litoral, coastal Estremadura and Alentejo along the Guadiana valley, and in Extremadura and Andalusia in Spain. Their capital was the old oppidum of Ibolca (sometimes transliterated as Ipolka), known as Obulco in Roman times, and which currently corresponds to the city of Porcuna, currently located between the provinces of Córdoba and Jaén. Apart from Ibolca, the pre-Roman towns most strongly associated with the Turdulli include Budua (Badajoz), Dipo (Guadajira), Mirobriga (Capilla), and Sisapo (Almadén).

Origins

While they are sometimes described, in the available ancient sources, as being related ethnically to the neighboring

Ligurians and Illyrians (who were native to the western Balkans).[2]

History

According to the 4th century BC

Turdetania (the region where was located the semi-legendary Kingdom of Tartessos, in the Baetis River valley, the present-day Guadalquivir),[4][5] in the modern Spanish eastern Extremadura region, where their ancient capital Regina Tourdulorum (Reina – Badajoz
) once stood.

The collapse of Tartessos in around 530 BC,

Sado; Kallipos in the Greek sources[8]) river valley as the Bardili.[9] The remnants, designated Turduli Veteres in the ancient sources,[10][11] migrated northwards in conjunction with the Celtici[12][13][14] and ended settling the Beira Litoral, a coastal region situated along the lower Douro and Vacca (Vouga
) river basins.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "Historia e memorias da Academia R. Das Sciencias de Lisboa". 1825.
  2. ^ a b c Ferreira do Amaral, Povos Antigos em Portugal... (1992), pp. 66; 69; 112-113; 120-121; 124; 137; 162; 189.
  3. ^ Strabo, Geographikon, III, 1, 6.
  4. ^ Strabo. Geography. pp. Book III Chapter 2 verse 11.
  5. ISBN 978-1-84217-410-4
    .
  6. ^ Macrobius, Saturnalia, 1: 20, 25.
  7. ^ Herodotus, Istoriai, II, 33; IV, 49.
  8. ^ Ptolemy, Geographia, II, 5.
  9. ^ Pliny the Elder, Natural History, IV, 116-118.
  10. ^ Pliny the Elder, Natural History, IV, 21.
  11. ^ Pomponius Mela, De Chorographia, III, 1.
  12. ^ Strabo, Geographikon, III, 3, 5.
  13. ^ Pomponius Mela, De Chorographia, III, 8.
  14. ^ Pliny the Elder, Natural History, IV, 112-113.

References

External links
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