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Many members of the Lusitanian tribal aristocracy were warriors as happened in many other pre-Roman peoples of the Iron Age. Only when an external threat occurred did the different tribes politically unite, as happened at the time of the Roman conquest of their territory when Viriathus became the single leader of the Lusitanian tribes.
The Lusitanian Wars, called Pyrinos Polemos ("the Fiery War") in Greek, [1] were wars of resistance fought by the Lusitanian tribes of Hispania Ulterior against the advancing legions of the Roman Republic from 155 to 139 BC. The Lusitanians revolted in 155 BC, and again in 146 BC and were pacified.
Conflict Location Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result Leader Battle of Ilipa [1] [2] (194 BC) Near Ilipa: Lusitanians: Roman Republic: Defeat: Unknown Battle of Lyco [1] [3] (190 BC)
Viriathus' Lusitanian armies, now led by Tautalus, still tries a southern incursion against the Romans, but are defeated. End of the Lusitanian War. The Romans grant the Lusitanians lands in the south of Lusitania (in modern Alentejo). 138 BC First big Roman campaign deep inside present Portuguese territory led by Consul Decimus Junius Brutus ...
Tartessian tribes Celtiberian tribes c. 230 BC c. 220 BC Overthrow of Diodotus II: Troops of Euthydemus I: Greco-Bactrian Kingdom: 230 BC 221 BC Qin's wars of unification: Qin: Han Zhao Dai Yan Wei Chu Qi: 230 BC 230 BC Conquest of Han Part of the Qin wars of unification: Qin Han 229 BC 228 BC First Illyrian War: Roman Republic: Ardiaei: 229 BC ...
The conquest of Oxthracae terrified the surrounding tribes, including the Vettones, who immediately sought terms of surrender, temporarily securing Roman dominance in the region, however, once Atilius withdrew his forces to winter quarters, the Lusitanians revolted and besieged some of Rome's allied settlements.
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.
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 ...