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Lusitanians

The Lusitanians[1] were an Indo-European-speaking people living in the far west of the Iberian Peninsula, around roughly to Central Portugal (what's nowadays known as central region) and areas of modern-day 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).

History edit

Origins edit

 
Ethnographic and Linguistic Map of the Iberian Peninsula at about 300 BCE (before the Carthaginian conquests).

Frontinus mentions Lusitanian leader Viriathus as the leader of the Celtiberians, in their war against the Romans.[2] The Greco-Roman historian Diodorus Siculus attributed them a name of another Celtic tribe: "Those who are called Lusitanians are the bravest of all similar to the Cimbri". The Lusitanians were also called Belitanians, according to the diviner Artemidorus.[3][4] Strabo differentiated the Lusitanians from the Iberian tribes and thought of them as being Celtiberians who had been known as Oestriminis in ancient times.[5][6][7] Lusitanians and Vettones however, based on archeological findings, seem to have been largely pre-Celtic indo-European populations that adopted Celtic cultural elements by proximity, thus why Strabo might have mistake them as Celtiberians.

On the other hand, Pliny the Elder and Pomponius Mela distinguished the Lusitanians from neighboring Celtic groups like the Artabrians in their geographical writings.[8]

The original Roman province of Lusitania briefly included the territories of Asturia and Gallaecia, but these were soon ceded to the jurisdiction of the Provincia Tarraconensis in the north, while the south remained the Provincia Lusitania et Vettones. Soon later, Gallaecia would become its own province (taking much of modern Galicia and Northern Portugal). After this, Lusitania's northern border was along the Douro River, while its eastern border passed through Salmantica and Caesarobriga to the Anas (Guadiana) river.

Wars with Rome edit

 
Iberian Peninsula at about 200 BC [1] 2011-02-26 at the Wayback Machine.

Lusitanian mercenaries fought for Carthage between the years 218 and 201 BC, during the Second Punic War against Rome. Silius Italicus describes them as forming a combined contingent with the Gallaeci and being led both by a commander named Viriathus (not to be confused with the similarly named chieftain).[9] According to Livy, Lusitanian and Celtiberian cavalry performed raids in the north of Italy whenever the terrain was too rough for Hannibal's famed Numidian cavalry.[10]

Since 193 BC, the Lusitanians had been fighting the Romans in Hispania. In 150 BC, they were defeated by Praetor Servius Galba: springing a treacherous trap, he killed 9,000 Lusitanians and later sold 20,000 more as slaves in Gaul (modern France). This massacre would not be forgotten by Viriathus, who three years later (147 BC) would become the leader of the Lusitanians, and severely damaged the Roman rule in Lusitania and beyond. In 139 BC, Viriathus was betrayed and killed in his sleep by three of his companions (who had been sent as emissaries to the Romans), Audax, Ditalcus and Minurus, bribed by Marcus Popillius Laenas (although they were Viriathus warrior companions they were not Lusitanians themselves, they seem to have been Turdetanians, or from other people that was not Lusitanian). However, when the three returned to receive their reward from the Romans, the Consul Quintus Servilius Caepio ordered their execution, declaring, "Rome does not pay traitors".

Romanization edit

After the death of Viriathus, the Lusitanians kept fighting under the leadership of Tautalus, but gradually acquired Roman culture and language; the Lusitanian cities, in a manner similar to those of the rest of the Romanised Iberian peninsula, eventually gained the status of "Citizens of Rome".

Culture edit

 
Lusitanian lunula from Miranda do Corvo (Portugal)
 
Generalised distribution and movements of Bell-Beaker cultures[11]

Categorising Lusitanian culture generally, including the language, is proving difficult and contentious. Some believe it was essentially a pre-Celtic Iberian culture with substantial Celtic influences, while others argue that it was an essentially Celtic[12] culture with strong indigenous pre-Celtic influences associated with the Beaker culture.

Religion edit

The Lusitanians worshiped various gods in a very diverse polytheism, using animal sacrifice. They represented their gods and warriors in rudimentary sculpture.

Endovelicus was the most important god for the Lusitanians. He is considered a possible Basque language loan god[13] by some, yet according to scholars like José Leite de Vasconcelos, the word Endovellicus was originally Celtic,[14] Andevellicos.

Endovelicus is compared with Welsh and Breton names, giving him the meaning of "Very Good God", the same epithet of the Irish god Dagda. Even the Romans worshiped him for his ability to protect. His cult eventually spread across the Iberian peninsula and beyond, to the rest of the Roman Empire and his cult was maintained until the fifth century; he was the god of public health and safety.

 
Ataegina by Pedro Roque Hidalgo (20th century), Museu do Mármore, Vila Viçosa, (Portugal).

The goddess Ataegina was especially popular in the south; as the goddess of rebirth (spring), fertility, nature, and cure, she was identified with Proserpina during the Roman era.

Lusitanian mythology was heavily influenced by or related to Celtic mythology.[15][16]

Also well attested in inscriptions are the names Bandua[17][18][19] (one of the variants of Borvo)[20] often with a second name linked to a locality such as Bandua Aetobrico, and Nabia,[21] a goddess of rivers and streams.[15][22]

According to Strabo the Lusitanians were given to offering sacrifices; they practiced divination on the sacrificial offering by inspecting its vitals and veins.

They also sacrificed human victims, prisoners of war, by striking them under coarse blankets and observing which way they fell. They cut off the right hands of their captives, which they offered to the gods.

Language edit

The Lusitanian language was a Paleohispanic language that clearly belongs to the Indo-European family. The precise affiliation of the Lusitanian language inside the Indo-European family is still in debate: there are those who endorse that it is a para-Celtic language with an obvious Celticity to most of the lexicon, over many anthroponyms and toponyms.[23] A second theory relates Lusitanian with the Italic languages;[24] based on the names of Lusitanian deities with other grammatical elements of the area.[25]

The Lusitanian language may in fact have been basal Italo-Celtic, a branch independent from Celtic and Italic, and splitting off early from Proto-Celtic and Proto-Italic populations who spread from Central Europe into western Europe after new Yamnaya migrations into the Danube Valley.[26][27][28][29] Alternatively, a European branch of Indo-European dialects, termed "North-west Indo-European" and associated with the Beaker culture, may have been ancestral to not only Celtic and Italic, but also to Germanic and Balto-Slavic.[30] Ellis Evans believes that Gallaecian - Lusitanian were one language (not separate languages) of the "P" Celtic variant.[31][32]

Tribes edit

 
Map showing the main pre-Roman tribes in Portugal and their main migrations: Turduli movement in red, Celtici in brown, and Lusitanian in blue; most tribes neighbouring the Lusitanians were dependent on them. Names are in Latin.

The Lusitanians were a people formed by several tribes that lived between the rivers Douro and Tagus, in most of today's Beira and Estremadura regions of central Portugal, and some areas of the Extremadura region (Spain).

They were a tribal confederation, not a single political entity; each tribe had its own territory and was independent, and was formed by smaller clans. However, they had a cultural sense of unity and a common name for the tribes.

Each tribe was ruled by its own tribal aristocracy and chief. 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. Punicus, Caucenus and Caesarus were other important Lusitanian chiefs before the Roman conquest. They ruled the Lusitanians (before Viriathus) for some time, leading the tribes in the resistance against Roman attempts of conquest, and were successful.

The known Lusitanian tribes were:

  • Arabrigenses
  • Araocelenses
  • Aravi
  • Coilarni/Colarni
  • Interamnienses
  • Lancienses
    • Lancienses Oppidani
    • Lancienses Transcudani
    • Lancienses Ocelenses (may be the same as the Oppidani)
  • Meidubrigenses
  • Paesuri - Douro and Vouga (Portugal)
  • Palanti (there is not agreement among scholars if they were Vettones or Lusitanian)[33]
    • Calontienses
    • Caluri
    • Coerenses
  • Petravioi
  • Tangi
    • Elbocori
    • Igaeditani
    • Tapori/Tapoli - by the river Tagus, around the border area between Portugal and Spain
  • Talures
  • Veaminicori
  • Vissaieici

It remains to be known if the Turduli Veteres, Turduli Oppidani, Turduli Bardili, and Turduli were Lusitanian tribes (coastal tribes), were related Celtic peoples, or were instead related to the Turdetani (Celtic, pre-Celtic Indo-European, or Iberians) and came from the south. The name Turduli Veteres (older or ancient Turduli), a tribe that dwelt in today's Aveiro District, seems to indicate they came from the north and not from the south (contrary to what is assumed on the map). Several Turduli peoples were possibly Callaeci tribes that initially came from the north, towards the south along the coast and then migrated inland along the Tagus and the Anas (Guadiana River) valleys.

If there were more Lusitanian tribes, their names are unknown.

Warfare edit

 
Statue of Viriatus, the Lusitanian leader during the Lusitanian War (155 to 139 BCE).

The Lusitanians were considered by historians to be particularly adept at guerrilla warfare. The strongest amongst them were selected to defend the populace in mountainous sites.[34] They used hooked javelins or saunions made of iron, and wielded swords and helmets like those of the Celtiberians. They threw their darts from some distance, yet often hit their marks and wounded their targets deeply. Being active and nimble warriors, they would pursue their enemies and decapitate them.

"In a narrow pass 300 Lusitani faced 1000 Romans; as a result of the action 70 of the former and 320 of the latter died. When the victorious Lusitani retired and dispersed confidently, one of them on foot became separated, and was surrounded by a detachment of pursuing cavalry. The lone warrior pierced the horse of one of the riders with his spear, and with a blow of his sword cut off the Roman’s head, producing such terror among the others that they prudently retired under his arrogant and contemptuous gaze."

— Orosius, Seven Books of History Against the Pagans, 5.4

In times of peace, they had a particular style of dancing, which required great agility and nimbleness of the legs and thighs. In times of war, they marched in time, until they were ready to charge the enemy.[35]

Appian claims that when Praetor Brutus sacked Lusitania after Viriathus's death, the women fought valiantly next to their men as women warriors.[3]

Contemporary meaning edit

While the Lusitanians didn't speak a Romance languge, nowadays Lusitanian is often used as a metonym for the Portuguese people, and similarly and Lusophone is used to refer to a Portuguese speaker within or outside Portugal, Brazil, Macau, Timor-Leste, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guinea Bissau and others territories and countries.

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ (Latin: Lusitani, Portuguese: Lusitanos)
  2. ^ https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Frontinus/Strategemata/2*.html%7CSextus Julius Frontinus. Stratagems: Book II. V. On Ambushes
  3. ^ a b Luciano Pérez Vilatela. Lusitania: historia y etnología, p. 14, at Google Books (in Spanish). [S.l.]: Real Academia de la Historia, 2000. 33 p. vol. 6 of Bibliotheca archaeologica hispana, v. 6 of Publicaciones del Gabinete de Antigüedades.
  4. ^ André de Resende. As Antiguidades da Lusitânia, p. 94, at Google Books (in Portuguese). [S.l.]: Imprensa da Univ. de Coimbra. 94 p.
  5. ^ Risco, Manuel (1779). "Espana Sagrada. Theatro geographico-historico de la iglesia de Espana. Origen, divisiones, y limites de todas sus provincias. Antiguedad, traslaciones, y estado antiguo y presente de sus sillas en todos los dominios de Espana, y Portugal. Con varias dissertaciones criticas, para ilustrar la historia eclesiastica de Espana. ... Su autor el P.M. Fr. Henrique Florez, del orden de San Augustin ... Tomo 1.[-51!: Espana sagrada, tomo 32. La Vasconia. Tratado preliminar a las Santas Iglesias de calahorra, y de Pamplona: ... Su autor el P. FR. Manuel Risco del orden de San Augustin".
  6. ^ The Geography of Strabo: An English Translation, with Introduction and Notes. 29 May 2014. ISBN 9781139952491.
  7. ^ Fraile, José María Gómez (1999). ""Los coceptos de "Iberia" e "ibero" en Estrabon"". SPAL: Revista de Prehistoria y Arqueología de la Universidad de Sevilla (in Spanish). 8 (8): 159–188. doi:10.12795/spal.1999.i8.09.
  8. ^ Among them the Praestamarci, Supertamarci, Nerii, Artabri, and in general all people living by the seashore except for the Grovi of southern Galicia and northern Portugal: 'Totam Celtici colunt, sed a Durio ad flexum Grovi, fluuntque per eos Avo, Celadus, Nebis, Minius et cui oblivionis cognomen est Limia. Flexus ipse Lambriacam urbem amplexus recipit fluvios Laeron et Ullam. Partem quae prominet Praesamarchi habitant, perque eos Tamaris et Sars flumina non longe orta decurrunt, Tamaris secundum Ebora portum, Sars iuxta turrem Augusti titulo memorabilem. Cetera super Tamarici Nerique incolunt in eo tractu ultimi. Hactenus enim ad occidentem versa litora pertinent. Deinde ad septentriones toto latere terra convertitur a Celtico promunturio ad Pyrenaeum usque. Perpetua eius ora, nisi ubi modici recessus ac parva promunturia sunt, ad Cantabros paene recta est. In ea primum Artabri sunt etiamnum Celticae gentis, deinde Astyres.', Pomponius Mela, Chorographia, III.7-9.
  9. ^ Silius Italicus, Punica, 3
  10. ^ Daly, Gregory (August 2005). Cannae: The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War. Routledge. ISBN 978-11-345071-2-2.
  11. ^ Piggot 1965, p. 101.
  12. ^ cf. Wodtko 2010: 355–362
  13. ^ Encarnação, José d’ (2015). Divindades indígenas sob o domínio romano em Portugal [Indigenous deities under Roman rule in Portugal] (in Portuguese) (Second ed.). Coimbra: Universidade de Coimbra.
  14. ^ Celts myths and religion in the Iberian Peninsula and Great-Britain: a common origin?
  15. ^ a b Pedreño, Juan Carlos Olivares (2005). "Celtic Gods of the Iberian Peninsula". Retrieved 12 May 2010.
  16. ^ Quintela, Marco V. García (2005). "Celtic Elements in Northwestern Spain in Pre-Roman times". Center for Celtic Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
  17. ^ Inventaire des divnités celtiques de l’Antiquité, L’Arbre Celtique
  18. ^ Eduardo Peralta Labrador (2003). Los cántabros antes de Roma. Real Academia de la Historia. ISBN 9788489512597.
  19. ^ CIL II, *00215.
  20. ^ MacCulloch, John Arnott (January 2003). The Religion of the Ancient Celts. ISBN 9780486427652.
  21. ^ TY - CHAP AU - Lemos, Francisco PY - 2008/01/01 SP - 122 EP - 211 T1 - A Cultura Castreja no Minho. Espaço Nuclear dos grandes povoados do Noroeste peninsular. ER -
  22. ^ Thayer, Roman E. "Book III, Chapter 3". Strabo Geography. University of Chicago. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  23. ^ Wodtko, Dagmar S. (2010). Celtic from the West Chapter 11: The Problem of Lusitanian. Oxford, UK: Oxbow Books. pp. 335–367. ISBN 978-1-84217-410-4.
  24. ^ Tamburelli, Marco; Brasca, Lissander (2018). "Revisiting the classification of Gallo-Italic: A dialectometric approach". Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. pp. 442–455. doi:10.1093/llc/fqx041.
  25. ^ Prósper, Blanca María (2003). "The inscription of Cabeço das Fráguas revisited. Lusitanian and Alteuropäisch populations in the West of the Iberian Peninsula". Transactions of the Philological Society. 97 (2): 151–184. doi:10.1111/1467-968X.00047.
  26. ^ Mallory 1999, pp. 108 f..
  27. ^ Mallory 1999, pp. 108, 244–250.
  28. ^ Anthony 2007, p. 360.
  29. ^ Haak 2015.
  30. ^ Mallory, James P. (2013). "The Indo-Europeanization of Atlantic Europe". In Koch, J. T.; Cunliffe, B. (eds.). Celtic From the West 2: Rethinking the Bronze Age and the Arrival of Indo–European in Atlantic Europe. Oxford: Oxbow Books. pp. 17–40.
  31. ^ (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 September 2020. Retrieved 13 May 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  32. ^ Celtic Culture: A-Celti. 2006. ISBN 9781851094400.
  33. ^ Alarcão, Jorge de (2001). [New perspectives on the Lusitanians (and other worlds)] (PDF). Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia (in Portuguese). 4 (2): 293–349 [p. 312 e segs]. ISSN 0874-2782. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 November 2013.
  34. ^ . Archived from the original on 28 January 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2011.
  35. ^ Hispaniae: Spain and the Development of Roman Imperialism, 218-82 BC, p. 100, at Google Books

References edit

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  • Anthony, David W. (2007). The Horse The Wheel And Language. How Bronze-Age Riders From the Eurasian Steppes Shaped The Modern World. Princeton University Press.
  • Haak, Wolfgang (2015), "Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe", Nature, 522 (7555): 207–211, arXiv:1502.02783, Bibcode:2015Natur.522..207H, doi:10.1038/nature14317, PMC 5048219, PMID 25731166
  • Mallory, J.P. (1999). In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology, and Myth (reprint ed.). London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-27616-7.
  • Piggot, Stuart (1965). Ancient Europe from the Beginnings of Agriculture to Classical Antiquity: a Survey. Chicago: Aldine.

Further reading edit

  • Amílcar Guerra, A propósito dos conceitos de "Lusitano" e "Lusitânia", Paleohispanica, 10, 81–98, Institución Fernando el Católico, Zaragoza (2010) ISSN 1578-5386 - [2]
  • Berrocal-Rangel, Luis, Los pueblos célticos del soroeste de la Península Ibérica, Editorial Complutense, Madrid (1992) ISBN 84-7491-447-7
  • Burillo Mozota, Francisco, Los Celtíberos, etnias y estados, Crítica, Barcelona (1998, revised edition 2007) ISBN 84-7423-891-9
  • Cardim Ribeiro, José (2009). "Terão certos teónimos paleohispânicos sido alvo de interpretações (pseudo-)etimológicas durante a romanidade passíveis de se reflectirem nos respectivos cultos?". Acta Paleohispanica X - Paleohispanica. 9: 247–270. ISSN 1578-5386.
  • Encarnação, José d' (2010). "Divindades indígenas sob o domínio romano em Portugal, 35 anos depois". Palaeohispanica. 10: 525–535. ISSN 1578-5386..
  • Lorrio Alvarado, Alberto José, Los Celtíberos, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Murcia (1997) ISBN 84-7908-335-2
  • Luján, Eugenio (2019). "Language and writing among the Lusitanians". Paleohispanic Languages and Epigraphies. Oxford University Press. pp. 304–334. doi:10.1093/oso/9780198790822.003.0011. ISBN 9780191833274.

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Not to be confused with Lusatian culture This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Lusitanians news newspapers books scholar JSTOR May 2009 Learn how and when to remove this message The Lusitanians 1 were an Indo European speaking people living in the far west of the Iberian Peninsula around roughly to Central Portugal what s nowadays known as central region and areas of modern day 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 Contents 1 History 1 1 Origins 1 2 Wars with Rome 1 3 Romanization 2 Culture 3 Religion 4 Language 5 Tribes 6 Warfare 7 Contemporary meaning 8 See also 9 Notes 10 References 10 1 Further reading 11 External linksHistory editOrigins edit nbsp Ethnographic and Linguistic Map of the Iberian Peninsula at about 300 BCE before the Carthaginian conquests Frontinus mentions Lusitanian leader Viriathus as the leader of the Celtiberians in their war against the Romans 2 The Greco Roman historian Diodorus Siculus attributed them a name of another Celtic tribe Those who are called Lusitanians are the bravest of all similar to the Cimbri The Lusitanians were also called Belitanians according to the diviner Artemidorus 3 4 Strabo differentiated the Lusitanians from the Iberian tribes and thought of them as being Celtiberians who had been known as Oestriminis in ancient times 5 6 7 Lusitanians and Vettones however based on archeological findings seem to have been largely pre Celtic indo European populations that adopted Celtic cultural elements by proximity thus why Strabo might have mistake them as Celtiberians On the other hand Pliny the Elder and Pomponius Mela distinguished the Lusitanians from neighboring Celtic groups like the Artabrians in their geographical writings 8 The original Roman province of Lusitania briefly included the territories of Asturia and Gallaecia but these were soon ceded to the jurisdiction of the Provincia Tarraconensis in the north while the south remained the Provincia Lusitania et Vettones Soon later Gallaecia would become its own province taking much of modern Galicia and Northern Portugal After this Lusitania s northern border was along the Douro River while its eastern border passed through Salmantica and Caesarobriga to the Anas Guadiana river Wars with Rome edit Main article Lusitanian War nbsp Iberian Peninsula at about 200 BC 1 Archived 2011 02 26 at the Wayback Machine Lusitanian mercenaries fought for Carthage between the years 218 and 201 BC during the Second Punic War against Rome Silius Italicus describes them as forming a combined contingent with the Gallaeci and being led both by a commander named Viriathus not to be confused with the similarly named chieftain 9 According to Livy Lusitanian and Celtiberian cavalry performed raids in the north of Italy whenever the terrain was too rough for Hannibal s famed Numidian cavalry 10 Since 193 BC the Lusitanians had been fighting the Romans in Hispania In 150 BC they were defeated by Praetor Servius Galba springing a treacherous trap he killed 9 000 Lusitanians and later sold 20 000 more as slaves in Gaul modern France This massacre would not be forgotten by Viriathus who three years later 147 BC would become the leader of the Lusitanians and severely damaged the Roman rule in Lusitania and beyond In 139 BC Viriathus was betrayed and killed in his sleep by three of his companions who had been sent as emissaries to the Romans Audax Ditalcus and Minurus bribed by Marcus Popillius Laenas although they were Viriathus warrior companions they were not Lusitanians themselves they seem to have been Turdetanians or from other people that was not Lusitanian However when the three returned to receive their reward from the Romans the Consul Quintus Servilius Caepio ordered their execution declaring Rome does not pay traitors Romanization edit After the death of Viriathus the Lusitanians kept fighting under the leadership of Tautalus but gradually acquired Roman culture and language the Lusitanian cities in a manner similar to those of the rest of the Romanised Iberian peninsula eventually gained the status of Citizens of Rome Culture edit nbsp Lusitanian lunula from Miranda do Corvo Portugal nbsp Generalised distribution and movements of Bell Beaker cultures 11 Categorising Lusitanian culture generally including the language is proving difficult and contentious Some believe it was essentially a pre Celtic Iberian culture with substantial Celtic influences while others argue that it was an essentially Celtic 12 culture with strong indigenous pre Celtic influences associated with the Beaker culture Religion editMain article Lusitanian mythology The Lusitanians worshiped various gods in a very diverse polytheism using animal sacrifice They represented their gods and warriors in rudimentary sculpture Endovelicus was the most important god for the Lusitanians He is considered a possible Basque language loan god 13 by some yet according to scholars like Jose Leite de Vasconcelos the word Endovellicus was originally Celtic 14 Andevellicos Endovelicus is compared with Welsh and Breton names giving him the meaning of Very Good God the same epithet of the Irish god Dagda Even the Romans worshiped him for his ability to protect His cult eventually spread across the Iberian peninsula and beyond to the rest of the Roman Empire and his cult was maintained until the fifth century he was the god of public health and safety nbsp Ataegina by Pedro Roque Hidalgo 20th century Museu do Marmore Vila Vicosa Portugal The goddess Ataegina was especially popular in the south as the goddess of rebirth spring fertility nature and cure she was identified with Proserpina during the Roman era Lusitanian mythology was heavily influenced by or related to Celtic mythology 15 16 Also well attested in inscriptions are the names Bandua 17 18 19 one of the variants of Borvo 20 often with a second name linked to a locality such as Bandua Aetobrico and Nabia 21 a goddess of rivers and streams 15 22 According to Strabo the Lusitanians were given to offering sacrifices they practiced divination on the sacrificial offering by inspecting its vitals and veins They also sacrificed human victims prisoners of war by striking them under coarse blankets and observing which way they fell They cut off the right hands of their captives which they offered to the gods Language editMain article Lusitanian language The Lusitanian language was a Paleohispanic language that clearly belongs to the Indo European family The precise affiliation of the Lusitanian language inside the Indo European family is still in debate there are those who endorse that it is a para Celtic language with an obvious Celticity to most of the lexicon over many anthroponyms and toponyms 23 A second theory relates Lusitanian with the Italic languages 24 based on the names of Lusitanian deities with other grammatical elements of the area 25 The Lusitanian language may in fact have been basal Italo Celtic a branch independent from Celtic and Italic and splitting off early from Proto Celtic and Proto Italic populations who spread from Central Europe into western Europe after new Yamnaya migrations into the Danube Valley 26 27 28 29 Alternatively a European branch of Indo European dialects termed North west Indo European and associated with the Beaker culture may have been ancestral to not only Celtic and Italic but also to Germanic and Balto Slavic 30 Ellis Evans believes that Gallaecian Lusitanian were one language not separate languages of the P Celtic variant 31 32 Tribes edit nbsp Map showing the main pre Roman tribes in Portugal and their main migrations Turduli movement in red Celtici in brown and Lusitanian in blue most tribes neighbouring the Lusitanians were dependent on them Names are in Latin The Lusitanians were a people formed by several tribes that lived between the rivers Douro and Tagus in most of today s Beira and Estremadura regions of central Portugal and some areas of the Extremadura region Spain They were a tribal confederation not a single political entity each tribe had its own territory and was independent and was formed by smaller clans However they had a cultural sense of unity and a common name for the tribes Each tribe was ruled by its own tribal aristocracy and chief 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 Punicus Caucenus and Caesarus were other important Lusitanian chiefs before the Roman conquest They ruled the Lusitanians before Viriathus for some time leading the tribes in the resistance against Roman attempts of conquest and were successful The known Lusitanian tribes were Arabrigenses Araocelenses Aravi Coilarni Colarni Interamnienses Lancienses Lancienses Oppidani Lancienses Transcudani Lancienses Ocelenses may be the same as the Oppidani Meidubrigenses Paesuri Douro and Vouga Portugal Palanti there is not agreement among scholars if they were Vettones or Lusitanian 33 Calontienses Caluri Coerenses Petravioi Tangi Elbocori Igaeditani Tapori Tapoli by the river Tagus around the border area between Portugal and Spain Talures Veaminicori Vissaieici It remains to be known if the Turduli Veteres Turduli Oppidani Turduli Bardili and Turduli were Lusitanian tribes coastal tribes were related Celtic peoples or were instead related to the Turdetani Celtic pre Celtic Indo European or Iberians and came from the south The name Turduli Veteres older or ancient Turduli a tribe that dwelt in today s Aveiro District seems to indicate they came from the north and not from the south contrary to what is assumed on the map Several Turduli peoples were possibly Callaeci tribes that initially came from the north towards the south along the coast and then migrated inland along the Tagus and the Anas Guadiana River valleys If there were more Lusitanian tribes their names are unknown Warfare editMain article Warfare in the ancient Iberian peninsula nbsp Statue of Viriatus the Lusitanian leader during the Lusitanian War 155 to 139 BCE The Lusitanians were considered by historians to be particularly adept at guerrilla warfare The strongest amongst them were selected to defend the populace in mountainous sites 34 They used hooked javelins or saunions made of iron and wielded swords and helmets like those of the Celtiberians They threw their darts from some distance yet often hit their marks and wounded their targets deeply Being active and nimble warriors they would pursue their enemies and decapitate them In a narrow pass 300 Lusitani faced 1000 Romans as a result of the action 70 of the former and 320 of the latter died When the victorious Lusitani retired and dispersed confidently one of them on foot became separated and was surrounded by a detachment of pursuing cavalry The lone warrior pierced the horse of one of the riders with his spear and with a blow of his sword cut off the Roman s head producing such terror among the others that they prudently retired under his arrogant and contemptuous gaze Orosius Seven Books of History Against the Pagans 5 4 In times of peace they had a particular style of dancing which required great agility and nimbleness of the legs and thighs In times of war they marched in time until they were ready to charge the enemy 35 Appian claims that when Praetor Brutus sacked Lusitania after Viriathus s death the women fought valiantly next to their men as women warriors 3 Contemporary meaning editFurther information Lusitanic and Lusophone While the Lusitanians didn t speak a Romance languge nowadays Lusitanian is often used as a metonym for the Portuguese people and similarly and Lusophone is used to refer to a Portuguese speaker within or outside Portugal Brazil Macau Timor Leste Angola Mozambique Cape Verde Sao Tome and Principe Guinea Bissau and others territories and countries See also editHistory of Portugal Timeline of Portuguese history Beira Alta Beira Baixa Ribatejo Alentejo Extremadura Emerita Augusta capital of the Roman province of Lusitania Lusitaniae et Vetoniae Hispania Lusitania Roman province Pre Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula List of Celtic tribes List of Celtic place names in Portugal List of Ancient Peoples of Portugal National Archaeology Museum Portugal Roman EmpireNotes edit Latin Lusitani Portuguese Lusitanos https penelope uchicago edu Thayer E Roman Texts Frontinus Strategemata 2 html 7CSextus Julius Frontinus Stratagems Book II V On Ambushes a b Luciano Perez Vilatela Lusitania historia y etnologia p 14 at Google Books in Spanish S l Real Academia de la Historia 2000 33 p vol 6 of Bibliotheca archaeologica hispana v 6 of Publicaciones del Gabinete de Antiguedades Andre de Resende As Antiguidades da Lusitania p 94 at Google Books in Portuguese S l Imprensa da Univ de Coimbra 94 p Risco Manuel 1779 Espana Sagrada Theatro geographico historico de la iglesia de Espana Origen divisiones y limites de todas sus provincias Antiguedad traslaciones y estado antiguo y presente de sus sillas en todos los dominios de Espana y Portugal Con varias dissertaciones criticas para ilustrar la historia eclesiastica de Espana Su autor el P M Fr Henrique Florez del orden de San Augustin Tomo 1 51 Espana sagrada tomo 32 La Vasconia Tratado preliminar a las Santas Iglesias de calahorra y de Pamplona Su autor el P FR Manuel Risco del orden de San Augustin The Geography of Strabo An English Translation with Introduction and Notes 29 May 2014 ISBN 9781139952491 Fraile Jose Maria Gomez 1999 Los coceptos de Iberia e ibero en Estrabon SPAL Revista de Prehistoria y Arqueologia de la Universidad de Sevilla in Spanish 8 8 159 188 doi 10 12795 spal 1999 i8 09 Among them the Praestamarci Supertamarci Nerii Artabri and in general all people living by the seashore except for the Grovi of southern Galicia and northern Portugal Totam Celtici colunt sed a Durio ad flexum Grovi fluuntque per eos Avo Celadus Nebis Minius et cui oblivionis cognomen est Limia Flexus ipse Lambriacam urbem amplexus recipit fluvios Laeron et Ullam Partem quae prominet Praesamarchi habitant perque eos Tamaris et Sars flumina non longe orta decurrunt Tamaris secundum Ebora portum Sars iuxta turrem Augusti titulo memorabilem Cetera super Tamarici Nerique incolunt in eo tractu ultimi Hactenus enim ad occidentem versa litora pertinent Deinde ad septentriones toto latere terra convertitur a Celtico promunturio ad Pyrenaeum usque Perpetua eius ora nisi ubi modici recessus ac parva promunturia sunt ad Cantabros paene recta est In ea primum Artabri sunt etiamnum Celticae gentis deinde Astyres Pomponius Mela Chorographia III 7 9 Silius Italicus Punica 3 Daly Gregory August 2005 Cannae The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War Routledge ISBN 978 11 345071 2 2 Piggot 1965 p 101 cf Wodtko 2010 355 362 Encarnacao Jose d 2015 Divindades indigenas sob o dominio romano em Portugal Indigenous deities under Roman rule in Portugal in Portuguese Second ed Coimbra Universidade de Coimbra Celts myths and religion in the Iberian Peninsula and Great Britain a common origin a b Pedreno Juan Carlos Olivares 2005 Celtic Gods of the Iberian Peninsula Retrieved 12 May 2010 Quintela Marco V Garcia 2005 Celtic Elements in Northwestern Spain in Pre Roman times Center for Celtic Studies University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Retrieved 12 May 2010 Inventaire des divnites celtiques de l Antiquite L Arbre Celtique Eduardo Peralta Labrador 2003 Los cantabros antes de Roma Real Academia de la Historia ISBN 9788489512597 CIL II 00215 MacCulloch John Arnott January 2003 The Religion of the Ancient Celts ISBN 9780486427652 TY CHAP AU Lemos Francisco PY 2008 01 01 SP 122 EP 211 T1 A Cultura Castreja no Minho Espaco Nuclear dos grandes povoados do Noroeste peninsular ER Thayer Roman E Book III Chapter 3 Strabo Geography University of Chicago Retrieved 12 October 2019 Wodtko Dagmar S 2010 Celtic from the West Chapter 11 The Problem of Lusitanian Oxford UK Oxbow Books pp 335 367 ISBN 978 1 84217 410 4 Tamburelli Marco Brasca Lissander 2018 Revisiting the classification of Gallo Italic A dialectometric approach Digital Scholarship in the Humanities pp 442 455 doi 10 1093 llc fqx041 Prosper Blanca Maria 2003 The inscription of Cabeco das Fraguas revisited Lusitanian and Alteuropaisch populations in the West of the Iberian Peninsula Transactions of the Philological Society 97 2 151 184 doi 10 1111 1467 968X 00047 Mallory 1999 pp 108 f Mallory 1999 pp 108 244 250 Anthony 2007 p 360 Haak 2015 Mallory James P 2013 The Indo Europeanization of Atlantic Europe In Koch J T Cunliffe B eds Celtic From the West 2 Rethinking the Bronze Age and the Arrival of Indo European in Atlantic Europe Oxford Oxbow Books pp 17 40 Archived copy PDF Archived from the original PDF on 30 September 2020 Retrieved 13 May 2020 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint archived copy as title link Celtic Culture A Celti 2006 ISBN 9781851094400 Alarcao Jorge de 2001 Novas perspectivas sobre os Lusitanos e outros mundos New perspectives on the Lusitanians and other worlds PDF Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia in Portuguese 4 2 293 349 p 312 e segs ISSN 0874 2782 Archived from the original PDF on 26 November 2013 The Historical Library of Diodorus Siculus Archived from the original on 28 January 2018 Retrieved 19 December 2011 Hispaniae Spain and the Development of Roman Imperialism 218 82 BC p 100 at Google BooksReferences editAngel 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 Alarcao Jorge de O Dominio Romano em Portugal Publicacoes Europa America Lisboa 1988 ISBN 972 1 02627 1 Alarcao Jorge de et alii De Ulisses a Viriato O primeiro milenio a C Museu Nacional de Arqueologia Instituto Portugues de Museus Lisboa 1996 ISBN 972 8137 39 7 Amaral Joao Ferreira do amp Amaral Augusto Ferreira do Povos Antigos em Portugal paleontologia do territorio hoje Portugues Quetzal Editores Lisboa 1997 ISBN 972 564 224 4 Anthony David W 2007 The Horse The Wheel And Language How Bronze Age Riders From the Eurasian Steppes Shaped The Modern World Princeton University Press Haak Wolfgang 2015 Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo European languages in Europe Nature 522 7555 207 211 arXiv 1502 02783 Bibcode 2015Natur 522 207H doi 10 1038 nature14317 PMC 5048219 PMID 25731166 Mallory J P 1999 In Search of the Indo Europeans Language Archaeology and Myth reprint ed London Thames amp Hudson ISBN 978 0 500 27616 7 Piggot Stuart 1965 Ancient Europe from the Beginnings of Agriculture to Classical Antiquity a Survey Chicago Aldine Further reading edit Amilcar Guerra A proposito dos conceitos de Lusitano e Lusitania Paleohispanica 10 81 98 Institucion Fernando el Catolico Zaragoza 2010 ISSN 1578 5386 2 Berrocal Rangel Luis Los pueblos celticos del soroeste de la Peninsula Iberica Editorial Complutense Madrid 1992 ISBN 84 7491 447 7 Burillo Mozota Francisco Los Celtiberos etnias y estados Critica Barcelona 1998 revised edition 2007 ISBN 84 7423 891 9 Cardim Ribeiro Jose 2009 Terao certos teonimos paleohispanicos sido alvo de interpretacoes pseudo etimologicas durante a romanidade passiveis de se reflectirem nos respectivos cultos Acta Paleohispanica X Paleohispanica 9 247 270 ISSN 1578 5386 Encarnacao Jose d 2010 Divindades indigenas sob o dominio romano em Portugal 35 anos depois Palaeohispanica 10 525 535 ISSN 1578 5386 Lorrio Alvarado Alberto Jose Los Celtiberos Universidad Complutense de Madrid Murcia 1997 ISBN 84 7908 335 2 Lujan Eugenio 2019 Language and writing among the Lusitanians Paleohispanic Languages and Epigraphies Oxford University Press pp 304 334 doi 10 1093 oso 9780198790822 003 0011 ISBN 9780191833274 External links editListen to this article 11 minutes source source nbsp This audio file was created from a revision of this article dated 10 November 2018 2018 11 10 and does not reflect subsequent edits Audio help More spoken articles Detailed map of the Pre Roman Peoples of Iberia around 200 BC Unknown ancient author text about Julius Caesar in Hispania of De Bello Hispaniensi Spanish War Pliny the Elder text of Naturalis Historia Natural History books 3 6 Geography and Ethnography Strabo s text of De Geographica About Geography Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Lusitanians amp oldid 1218720555, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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