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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 ).
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 ...
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 ...
In the sequence of the Second Punic War, the Roman Republic defeated Carthage and its colonies in the Mediterranean Coast of the Iberian Peninsula. This marked the first incursion of the Roman Republic into the peninsula and possibly the first clash between Lusitanians and Romans, as Lusitanian mercenaries fought on the Carthaginian side during the Punic Wars.
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.
Lusitanian mythology is the mythology of the Lusitanians, an Indo-European speaking people of western Iberia, in what was then known as Lusitania.In present times, the territory comprises the central part of Portugal and small parts of Extremadura and Salamanca.
Although there is today a strong identification of the Lusitanians with the territory of modern Portugal, not all the territory were dwelt by the Lusitanians, they were themselves a tribal confederation (they dwelt mainly between the rivers Tagus and Douro in central Portugal, Beira and Estremadura, and parts of the Spanish western Extremadura ...
After the Conquest of Conistorgis by the Lusitanians, some of them went to raid North Africa, laying siege to a city named Ocile, however, Mummius followed them with his remaining 9000 foot and 500 horses, and lifted the siege. Mummius was later sent back to Rome, where he was awarded a triumph. He was then succeeded by Marcus Atilius. [1]