The Vettones were one of the pre-Roman peoples of Iberia, dwelling in the northwestern part of the meseta— the high central upland plain of the Iberian peninsula, the region where the Spanish provinces of Avila and Salamanca are today, as well as parts of Zamora, Toledo and Cáceres. Roman authors recognized the cohesion of cultural features and celled the tribe the Vettones. Iberia can mean: The Iberian peninsula of southwest Europe; That part of it inhabited by the Iberians, speaking the Iberian language. ... topographic map of the Iberian Peninsula The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe. ... vila is a town in the south of Castile, the capital of the province of the same name, now part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon, Spain. ... For other places named Salamanca, see Salamanca (disambiguation). ...
In any case, the population size of the Vetton communities, according to the cemeteries and the size of the settlements, indicates that some other important aspects were involved besides demography: social organization, the subsistence economy or the cultural traditions of the people.
Vetton society in the fourth and third centuries BC was a stratified society led by an aristocratic elite that owned horses and sumptuous weapons that marked their position at the head of a larger group of warriors with a simpler panoply (Martín Valls 1986-87: 78; Álvarez-Sanchís 1999: 295 ff.).
The size of the walled areas, the remains of monumental buildings, the layout of the houses and the density of the materials found on the surface suggest that the settlement was divided into several sectors or districts (Álvarez-Sanchís 1999: 144; Ruiz Zapatero and Álvarez-Sanchís 1999).
The first area colonized by the Lusitanians was probably the Douro valley and the region of Beira Alta; in Beira they stayed until they defeated the Celts and other tribes, then they expanded to cover a territory that reached Estremadura before the arrival of the Romans.
Originally the Roman province of Lusitania included the territories of Asturia and Gallaecia, but these were later ceded to the jurisdiction of new Provincia Tarraconensis and the former remained as Provincia Lusitania et Vettones.
Vettones - living in the Spanish provinces of Ávila and Salamanca, as well as parts of Zamora, Toledo and Cáceres;
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