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Aracillum
Aracillum was a fortified Cantabrian city, scene of the third of the great battles of the Cantabrian wars (year 26 BC according to the chronology of E. Martino) between the Roman Empire and Cantabrian indigenous tribes. It would be located in the territory of present-day Cantabria, with two possible locations: Aradillos, near Reinosa and the Roman city of Julióbriga; the second possible location would be the ''castro'' of the Galician Thorn, in the Mountains of the Shield. According to Roman historiography it belonged to the ''blendii''. Aracillum in the classical texts In Floro's account of the war, and according to Eutimio Martino's translation, it is said that "third, the fortress of Aracillum resists with great thrust; nevertheless, it was taken" (''tertio Aracelium oppidum magna vi repugnat; captum tamen''.)Martino p. 32. For his part, Orosio writes that "later, the fortress of ''Racilium'', although it resisted with great force and for a long time, was finally taken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cantabri
The Cantabri ( grc-gre, Καντάβροι, ''Kantabroi'') or Ancient Cantabrians, were a pre-Ancient Rome, Roman people and large tribal federation that lived in the northern coastal region of ancient Iberia in the second half of the first millennium BC. These peoples and their territories were incorporated into the Roman Province of Hispania Tarraconensis in 19 BC, following the Cantabrian Wars. Name ' is a Latinisation of names, Latinized form of a local name, presumably meaning "Highlanders" and deriving from the linguistic reconstruction, reconstructed root *''cant''- ("mountain") in Ligurian language (ancient), Ancient Ligurian. During the High and Late Middle Ages, as well as Modern Period, the name refers usually to the Basques. Geography Cantabria, the land of the Cantabri, originally comprised much of the highlands of the northern Spanish Atlantic coast, including the whole of modern Cantabria province, eastern Asturias, nearby mountainous regions of Castile and Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
