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Mummius used his 5,000 remaining soldiers and attacked the Lusitanians by surprise, slaying a large number of them. [6] The Lusitanians on the other side of the Tagus, led by Caucenus, invaded the Cunei, who were subject to Rome, and conquered Conistorgis. Some of the Lusitanians then raided North Africa, laying siege to Ocile. Mummius followed ...
The Lusitanians [1] were an Indo-European-speaking people living in the far west of the Iberian Peninsula, in present-day central Portugal and Extremadura and Castilla y Leon of Spain. After its conquest by the Romans , the land was subsequently incorporated as a Roman province named after them ( Lusitania ).
Lusitanians: Roman Republic: Defeat: Unknown Second capture of Hasta [4] (186 BC) Hasta: Lusitanians: Roman Republic: Defeat: Unknown Clashes near Toletum [5] (185 BC) Near Toledo: Lusitanians Celtiberians Vaccaei: Roman Republic: Victory: Unknown Battle of the Tagus River [5] (185 BC) Tagus River: Lusitanians: Roman Republic: Defeat: Unknown ...
The Iberian Peninsula in the time of Hadrian (ruled 117–138 AD) showing, in western Iberia, the imperial province of Lusitania (Portugal and Extremadura). Lusitania (/ ˌ l uː s ɪ ˈ t eɪ n i ə /; Classical Latin: [luːsiːˈtaːnia]) was an ancient Iberian Roman province encompassing most of modern-day Portugal (south of the Douro River) and a large portion of western Spain (the present ...
Viriathus (also spelled Viriatus; known as Viriato in Portuguese and Spanish; died 139 BC) was the most important leader of the Lusitanian people that resisted Roman expansion into the regions of western Hispania (as the Romans called it) or western Iberia (as the Greeks called it), where the Roman province of Lusitania would be finally established after the conquest.
Initially, things were quiet, but in 187 BC, the two praetors informed Rome that Celtiberians and Lusitanians were in arms and were ravaging the lands of the allies. Gaius Atinius fought the Lusitanians near Hasta, defeated them, killing 6,000 of them, and seized their camp.
In the following year, when Galba had returned to Rome, the tribune, Lucius Scribonius Libo, brought a charge against him for the outrage he had committed on the Lusitanians. Cato the Censor, then 85 years old, attacked him mercilessly in the assembly of the people. Galba, educated in the rhetoric of the day, had nothing to say in his own defence.
The Lusitanians successfully resist Roman offensive. Caius Vetilius, appointed governor of Hispania Ulterior, is killed in an ambush led by Viriathus. 146 BC Viriathus' Lusitanians defeat the Roman forces of Caius Plancius, taking the city of Segobriga. Viriathus' Lusitanians defeat the Roman forces of Claudius Unimanus, governor of Hispania ...