After the Punic Wars, the Romans turned their attention to conquering Hispania. The tribe of the Gallaicoi 60,000 strong, according to Paulus Orosius, faced the Roman forces in 137 BC in a battle at the river Douro (Spanish Duero,Portuguese Douro,Latin Durius), which resulted in a great Roman victory, by virtue of which the Roman proconsul Decimus Junius Brutus returned a hero, receiving the agnomenGallaicus ("conqueror of the Gallaicoi"). From this time, Gallaecian fighters joined the Roman legions, to serve as far away as Dacia and Britain. The final extinction of Celtic resistance was the aim of the violent and ruthless Cantabrian Wars fought under the emperor Octavian from 26 to 19 BC. The resistance was appalling: collective suicide rather than surrender, mothers who killed their children before committing suicide, crucified prisoners of war who sang triumphant hymns, rebellions of captives who killed their guards and returned home from Gaul. Paulus Orosius (c. ... The Douro at Oporto The Douro (Spanish Duero, Latin Durius, Portuguese Douro) is one of the major rivers of Spain and Portugal, flowing from its source near Soria across central Spain and Portugal to its outlet at Oporto. ... Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus (died 43 BC) was a Roman politician and general of the 1st century BC, one of Julius Caesars assassins. ... ... The Cantabrian Wars (29 BC-19 BC) occurred during the Roman conquest of the ancient province of Cantabria. ... Augustus Caesar The title Caesar Augustus, given to every emperor of the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire, originates from this person. ... Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 70s BC 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC - 20s BC - 10s BC 0s 10s 20s 30s Years: 31 BC 30 BC 29 BC 28 BC 27 BC 26 BC 25 BC 24 BC 23 BC 22 BC 21... Centuries: 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century Decades: 60s BC 50s BC 40s BC 30s BC 20s BC - 10s BC - 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s Years: 24 BC 23 BC 22 BC 21 BC 20 BC 19 BC 18 BC 17 BC 16 BC 15 BC 14 BC... Map of Gaul circa 58 BC Gaul (Latin Gallia, Greek Galatia) was the region of Western Europe occupied by present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine river. ...
For Rome Gallaecia was a region formed exclusively by two conventus—the Lucensis and the Bracarensis—and was distinguished clearly from other zones like the Asturica, according to written sources:
In the 3rd century, Diocletian created an administrative division which included the conventus of Gallaecia, Asturica and perhaps Cluniense. This province took the name of Gallaecia since Gallaecia was the most populous and important zone within the province. In 409, as Roman control collapsed, the Suebi conquests transformed Roman Gallaecia (convents Lucense and Bracarense) into the kingdom of Gallaecia (the Galliciense Regnum recorded by Hydatius and Gregory of Tours). Pliny the Elder: an imaginative 19c portrait. ... // Overview Events 212: Constitutio Antoniniana grants citizenship to all free Roman men 212-216: Baths of Caracalla 230-232: Sassanid dynasty of Persia launches a war to reconquer lost lands in the Roman east 235-284: Crisis of the Third Century shakes Roman Empire 250-538: Kofun era, the first... Emperor Diocletian. ... Suebi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Written by Michael Kulikowski, Modifed by Wikipedia contributors, published by Wikimedia Hydatius (c. ... Saint Gregory of Tours (c. ...
In Beatus of Liébana (d. 798), Gallaecia refers to the Christian part of the Iberian peninsula, whereas Hispania refers to the Muslim one. The emirs found it not worth their while to conquer these mountains filled with fighters and lacking oil or wine. The world map called St. ... The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe. ...
In Charlemagne's time, bishops of Gallaecia attended the Council of Frankfurt in 794. During his residence in Aquisgran, he received embassies of the kings of Gallaecia (796-798) according to the Frankish chronicles. Charlemagne (742 or 747 – 28 January 814) (also Charles the Great[1]; from Latin, Carolus Magnus[2]), son of King Pippin the Short and Bertrada of Laon, was king of the Franks from 768 to 814 and king of the Lombards from 774 to 814. ...
Sancho III of Navarre in 1029 refers to Vermudo III as Imperator domus Vermudus in Gallaecia. Sancho III (c. ...
Suebi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... This is a historical timeline of Portugal. ... This is a historical timeline of Portugal. ... This is a historical timeline of Portugal. ...
External links
Alfonso Carbonell Lombardero, "The Gaels in Gallaecia"
Detailed map of the Pre-Roman Peoples of Iberia (around 200 BC)
Rutas Arqueolóxicas do Eixo Atlántico - Roteiro Arqueológico do Eixo Atlântico
The Portuguese people are the ethnic group or nation native to the country of Portugal, in the Iberian peninsula of southwest Europe.
Their ethnic origin is mainly a mixture of Celtic and Iberian tribes (called Celtiberians, such as the Lusitanian, the Calaicians or Gallaeci and the Conii, amongst others less significant tribes such as the Bracari, Celtici, Coelerni, Eqvaesi, Grovii, Interamici, Levni, Luanqvi, Limici, Narbasi, Nemetati, Paesvri, Qvaqverni, Sevrbi, Tamagani, Tapoli, Zoelae, Turduli).
Other important influences were also the Romans (the Portuguese language derives from Latin), the Visigoths and the Suevi, all of whom settled in what is today Portuguese territory.
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