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The Bastetani or Bastuli were an
ancient Iberian
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(pre-
Roman
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) people of the
Iberian peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula (),
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* Aragonese and Occitan: ''Peninsula Iberica''
**
**
* french: Péninsule Ibérique
* mwl, Península Eibérica
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(the Roman
Hispania
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). They are believed to have spoken the
Iberian language. The relationship between the Iberian Bastetani and the
Tartessian Mastieni (who lived in
Mastia
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, on the southeastern coast of the peninsula) is not entirely clear.
Their territory extended through the southeastern
Iberian Peninsula
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**
* Aragonese and Occitan: ''Peninsula Iberica''
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**
* french: Péninsule Ibérique
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, which currently encompasses southern
Albacete
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Lying in the south-ea ...
,
Almería
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,
Granada
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, eastern
Málaga
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, southeastern
Jaén and western
Murcia
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. Their main towns were located between ''Baria'' (present-day
Villaricos) and ''Bailo'' (
Cádiz
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), also including ''
Malaka'', ''
Abdera'', ''
Sexi'' and ''
Carteia''.
[Luis A. García Moreno, ''Mastienos y Bastetanos: un problema de la etnología hispana prerromana.'' 1990] Their capital was probably the city known as Basti by the Romans, which corresponds to present-day
Baza.
The ''
Lady of Baza
The ''Lady of Baza'' (''la Dama de Baza'') is a famous example of Iberian sculpture by the Bastetani. It is a limestone female figure with traces of painted detail in a stuccoed surface that was found on July 22, 1971, by Francisco José Pres ...
'', a famous Bastetani sculpture, was recovered from the necropolis of Basti in 1971.
See also
*
Iberians
The Iberians ( la, Hibērī, from el, Ἴβηρες, ''Iberes'') were an ancient people settled in the eastern and southern coasts of the Iberian peninsula, at least from the 6th century BC. They are described in Greek and Roman sources (among ...
*
Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula
This is a list of the pre-Roman people of the Iberian Peninsula (the Roman Hispania, i. e., modern Portugal, Spain and Andorra). Some closely fit the concept of a people, ethnic group or tribe. Others are confederations or even unions of tri ...
*
Lady of Baza
The ''Lady of Baza'' (''la Dama de Baza'') is a famous example of Iberian sculpture by the Bastetani. It is a limestone female figure with traces of painted detail in a stuccoed surface that was found on July 22, 1971, by Francisco José Pres ...
References
External links
Detailed map of the Pre-Roman Peoples of Iberia (around 200 BC)
Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula
Ancient peoples of Spain
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