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The Iberian Peninsula in the 3rd century BC.
Location map of the pre-Roman people of
Cessetani
in
Iberian peninsula
.
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The
Cessetani
were an ancient
Iberian
(Pre-
Roman
) people of the
Iberian peninsula
(the Roman
Hispania
). They are believed to have spoken the
Iberian language
. Their territory extended along the coast between the
Coll de Balaguer
and the
Garraf Massif
and was limited in the west by the
Prades Mountains
.
History
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One of their main cities was
Tarraco
, modern day
Tarragona
. Although there are no remains visible of the Cessetani civilization, you can visit the Roman remains of a theater, a stadium and a Roman city wall. The Roman ruins of Tarraco are also listed on Unesco. Tarraco was captured by the Romans in 218 BC, after the
Battle of Cissa
, in which Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio triumphed over the Carthaginians during the beginning of the
Second Punic War
.
Culture
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The Cessetani minted their own coins, almost ever only with the name of one of their main cities,
kese
, but a few bore the inscription
kesesken
in
northeastern Iberian script
that is interpreted in
Iberian language
as a self-reference to the ethnic name of that people: from the Cessetani or from those of
kese
.
See also
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References
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- Angel Montenegro
et alii
,
Historia de Espana 2 - colonizaciones y formacion de los pueblos prerromanos (1200-218 a.C)
, Editorial Gredos, Madrid (1989)
ISBN
84-249-1386-8
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