Iberian Peninsula at about 200 BC [http://arkeotavira.com/Mapas/Iberia/Populi.htm

Origin

Whether they were Celts or pre-Celtic Iberians has not been established. A third possibility is that they represented a pre-Celtic population who had adopted many elements of Celtic culture (namely from the Celtici of Alentejo), with normal expectations of some intermarriage, and cultural influences from powerful Tartessos to the east of them (in the region Romans would call Hispania Bætica).

Inscriptions

Inscriptions in the Tartessian language have been found in the area, in a variety often referred to as Southwest script. The name Conii, found in Strabo, seems to have been identical with the Cynesii, who were mentioned by Herodotus as the westernmost dwellers of Europe and distinguished by him from the Celts^[1].

Main city

Map of the Gulf of Cádiz in Antiquity. Conistorgis is imprecisely located north of Ossonoba city (today's Faro, Portugal).

Notes

References

• Mattoso, José (dir.), História de Portugal. Primeiro Volume: Antes de Portugal, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 1992. (in Portuguese)
• Strabo, Geographika, III, 2, 2.
• Muñoz, Mauricio Pasto: Viriato, A Luta pela Liberdade, Ésquilo, 2003 (third edition; ISBN 972-8605-23-4).

See also

• History of Portugal
• Prehistoric Iberia
• Timeline of Portuguese history
  • Pre-Roman Western Iberia (Before the 3rd century BC)
  • Roman Lusitania and Gallaecia (3rd century BC to 4th century AD)
• Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula

External links

• Detailed map of the Pre-Roman Peoples of Iberia (around 200 BC)

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