The Albiones or Albioni were a Gallaecian people living the north coast of modern

Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i ...

in western

Asturias Asturias (, ; ast, Asturies ), officially the Principality of Asturias ( es, Principado de Asturias; ast, Principáu d'Asturies; Galician-Asturian: ''Principao d'Asturias''), is an autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community in nor ...

and eastern Galicia mentioned by

Pliny the Elder Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/2479), called Pliny the Elder (), was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic '' ...

. They are generally included in maps of Roman Spain. The name ''Albiones'' is also attested on the "stele of Nicer Clutosi" found near

Vegadeo Vegadeo ( Eonavian: A Veiga) is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is bordered in the north and east by Castropol, in the south by Villanueva de Oscos, Taramundi, and San Tirso de Abres, and in t ...

, which has the inscription: : ☧ NICER CLUTOSI (filius) C(astello) CARIACA PRINCIPIS ALBIONUM AN(norum) LXXV HI(c) S(itus) EST, which can be translated as " Nicer, onof Clutoso from the house of Cariaca, prince of the Albions, ied aged75 years, lies here."''L'Année épigraphique'' (1946), 121. This same area was settled by a group of Britons in the post-Roman period, from whom the region took the name Britonia or Bretoña, mentioned in ecclesiastical sources as ''Britonensis ecclesia'' ("British church") and an episcopal see called the ''sedes Britonarum'' - see the

History of Galicia The Iberian Peninsula has been inhabited for at least 500,000 years, first by Neanderthals and then by modern humans. Prehistory Megalithic culture Galicia, northern Portugal, Asturias, western León, and Zamora formed a single megalithi ...

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Detailed map of the Pre-Roman Peoples of Iberia (around 200 BC)Stone of Nicer prince of the albions. From "People of Asturias Museum" Oviedo
History of Asturias Celtic tribes of the Iberian Peninsula Tribes conquered by Rome {{Pre-Roman peoples in Spain