Uraci
The Uraci or Duraci (
Iberia who dwelt to the east of the Vaccaei and the Carpetani, occupying the southern Soria, northern Guadalajara and western Zaragoza provinces
since the 4th century BC.
Origins
Of mixed Illyrian and Gallic origin, the latter possibly related to the Helvetic Rauraci, the Uraci migrated to the Iberian Peninsula around the 4th Century BC during the Celtic migration,[1][2] and their tribal name can be roughly translated as "those [placed] farther apart".[3]
Location
The Uraci settled the eastern
Medinacelli – Soria), Segontia (Sigüenza – Guadalajara) and Arcobriga (Monreal de Ariza – Zaragoza).[5]
Culture
It is assumed that the Uraci spoke a '
Q-Celtic' language and archeological evidence shows that their material culture little differed from the Celtiberians
.
History
Forced to become clients of the powerful
Celtiberia
.
See also
- Celtiberian confederacy
- Celtiberian script
- Celtiberian Wars
- Helvetii
- Illyrians
- Numantine War
- Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula
Notes
- ^ Pliny the Elder, Natural History, III, 29.
- ^ Strabo, Geographikon, III, 4, 12.
- ^ Motoza, Los Celtíberos, etnias y estados (1998, revised edition 2007), p. 42.
- ^ Motoza, Los Celtíberos, etnias y estados (1998, revised edition 2007), pp. 42; 201.
- ^ Motoza, Los Celtíberos, etnias y estados (1998, revised edition 2007), pp. 199-201.
- ^ Motoza, Los Celtíberos, etnias y estados (1998, revised edition 2007), pp. 194-195.
- ^ Motoza, Los Celtíberos, etnias y estados (1998, revised edition 2007), pp. 194-195.
References
- Ángel Montenegro et alii, Historia de España 2 - colonizaciones y formación de los pueblos prerromanos (1200-218 a.C), Editorial Gredos, Madrid (1989) ISBN 84-249-1386-8
- Francisco Burillo Mozota, Los Celtíberos, etnias y estados, Crítica, Grijalbo Mondadori, S.A., Barcelona (1998, revised edition 2007) ISBN 84-7423-891-9
- Leonard A Curchin (5 May 2004). The Romanization of Central Spain: Complexity, Diversity and Change in a Provincial Hinterland. Routledge. pp. 37–. ISBN 978-1-134-45112-8.