Vascones, the Glossary
The Vascones were a pre-Roman tribe who, on the arrival of the Romans in the 1st century, inhabited a territory that spanned between the upper course of the Ebro river and the southern basin of the western Pyrenees, a region that coincides with present-day Navarre, western Aragon and northeastern La Rioja, in the Iberian Peninsula.[1]
Table of Contents
103 relations: Abd al-Rahman I, Adolf Schulten, Aethicus Ister, Alagón, Zaragoza, Alans, Alfaro, La Rioja, Ancient Greek, Ancient history, Ancient Rome, Aquitaine, Aquitani, Aquitanian language, Aragon, Augustus, Autrigones, Álava, Île de Ré, Bagaudae, Barbarin, Navarre, Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque language, Basques, Battle of Roncevaux Pass, Battle of Roncevaux Pass (824), Bay of Biscay, Berones, Biscay, Calahorra, Cantabri, Caristii, Cascante, Castile (historical region), Celtiberians, Charlemagne, Christianity, Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz, Commentarii de Bello Gallico, Didimus, Duchy of Gascony, Ebro, Einhard, Ejea de los Caballeros, Feudalism, Francia, French Basque Country, Gallia Aquitania, Gascon dialect, Gascony, Gaul, Germanic peoples, ... Expand index (53 more) »
- Ancient history of the Basque Country
Abd al-Rahman I
Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu'awiya ibn Hisham (7 March 731 – 30 September 788), commonly known as Abd al-Rahman I, was the founder and first emir of the Emirate of Córdoba, ruling from 756 to 788.
See Vascones and Abd al-Rahman I
Adolf Schulten
Adolf Schulten (27 May 1870 – 19 March 1960) was a German historian and archaeologist.
See Vascones and Adolf Schulten
Aethicus Ister
Aethicus Ister (Aethicus Donares, Aethicus of Istria or Aethicus Ister) was the protagonist of the 7th/8th-century Cosmographia, purportedly written by a man of church Hieronymus (Jerome, but not the Church Father Jerome), who purportedly censors an even older work for producing the book as its censored version.
See Vascones and Aethicus Ister
Alagón, Zaragoza
Alagón is a municipality located in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain.
See Vascones and Alagón, Zaragoza
Alans
The Alans (Latin: Alani) were an ancient and medieval Iranic nomadic pastoral people who migrated to what is today North Caucasus – while some continued on to Europe and later North-Africa.
Alfaro, La Rioja
Alfaro is a town and municipality in La Rioja, northern Spain.
See Vascones and Alfaro, La Rioja
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
See Vascones and Ancient Greek
Ancient history
Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity.
See Vascones and Ancient history
Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
Aquitaine
Aquitaine (Aquitània; Akitania; Poitevin-Saintongeais: Aguiéne), archaic Guyenne or Guienne (Guiana), is a historical region of Southwestern France and a former administrative region.
Aquitani
The Aquitani were a tribe that lived in the region between the Pyrenees, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Garonne, in present-day southwestern France in the 1st century BC. Vascones and Aquitani are ancient history of the Basque Country and pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula.
Aquitanian language
The Aquitanian language was the language of the ancient Aquitani, spoken on both sides of the western Pyrenees in ancient Aquitaine (approximately between the Pyrenees and the Garonne, in the region later known as Gascony) and in the areas south of the Pyrenees in the valleys of the Basque Country before the Roman conquest.
See Vascones and Aquitanian language
Aragon
Aragon (Spanish and Aragón; Aragó) is an autonomous community in Spain, coextensive with the medieval Kingdom of Aragon.
Augustus
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian (Octavianus), was the founder of the Roman Empire.
Autrigones
The Autrigones were a pre-Roman tribe that settled in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, in what today is the western Basque Country (western regions of Biscay and Álava) and northern Burgos and the East of Cantabria, Spain. Vascones and Autrigones are ancient history of the Basque Country and pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula.
Álava
Álava (in Spanish) or Araba, officially Araba/Álava, is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the Basque Country, heir of the ancient Lordship of Álava, former medieval Catholic bishopric and now Latin titular see.
Île de Ré
Île de Ré (variously spelled Rhé or Rhéa; Poitevin: ile de Rét; Isle of Ré) is an island off the Atlantic coast of France near La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, on the northern side of the Pertuis d'Antioche strait.
Bagaudae
Bagaudae (also spelled bacaudae) were groups of peasant insurgents in the western parts of the later Roman Empire, who arose during the Crisis of the Third Century and persisted until the very end of the Western Empire, particularly in the less-Romanised areas of Gallia and Hispania.
Barbarin, Navarre
Barbarin is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain.
See Vascones and Barbarin, Navarre
The Basque Country (Euskadi; País Vasco), also called the Basque Autonomous Community, is an autonomous community in northern Spain.
See Vascones and Basque Country (autonomous community)
Basque language
Basque (euskara) is the only surviving Paleo-European language spoken in Europe, predating the arrival of speakers of the Indo-European languages that dominate the continent today. Basque is spoken by the Basques and other residents of the Basque Country, a region that straddles the westernmost Pyrenees in adjacent parts of northern Spain and southwestern France.
See Vascones and Basque language
Basques
The Basques (or; euskaldunak; vascos; basques) are a Southwestern European ethnic group, characterised by the Basque language, a common culture and shared genetic ancestry to the ancient Vascones and Aquitanians.
Battle of Roncevaux Pass
The Battle of Roncevaux Pass (French and English spelling, Roncesvalles in Spanish, Orreaga in Basque) in 778 saw a large force of Basques ambush a part of Charlemagne's army in Roncevaux Pass, a high mountain pass in the Pyrenees on the present border between France and Spain, after his invasion of the Iberian Peninsula.
See Vascones and Battle of Roncevaux Pass
Battle of Roncevaux Pass (824)
During the Battle of Roncevaux Pass a combined Basque-Qasawi Muslim army defeated a Carolingian military expedition in 824.
See Vascones and Battle of Roncevaux Pass (824)
Bay of Biscay
The Bay of Biscay is a gulf of the northeast Atlantic Ocean located south of the Celtic Sea.
See Vascones and Bay of Biscay
Berones
The Berones were a pre-Roman Celtic people of ancient Spain, although they were not part of the Celtiberians, they lived north of the Celtiberians and close to the Cantabrian Conisci in the middle Ebro region between the Tirón and Alhama rivers. Vascones and Berones are pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula.
Biscay
Biscay (Bizkaia; Vizcaya) is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the Vascongadas, heir of the ancient Lordship of Biscay, lying on the south shore of the eponymous bay.
Calahorra
Calahorra (Calagorra; Calagurris) is a municipality in the comarca of Rioja Baja, near the border with Navarre on the right bank of the Ebro.
Cantabri
The Cantabri (Καντάβροι, Kantabroi) or Ancient Cantabrians, were a pre-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. Vascones and Cantabri are pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula.
Caristii
The Caristii were a pre-Roman tribe settled in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, in what today are known as the historical territories of Biscay and Álava, in the Basque Country, northern Spain. Vascones and Caristii are ancient history of the Basque Country and pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula.
Cascante
Cascante is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain.
Castile (historical region)
Castile or Castille is a territory of imprecise limits located in Spain.
See Vascones and Castile (historical region)
Celtiberians
The Celtiberians were a group of Celts and Celticized peoples inhabiting an area in the central-northeastern Iberian Peninsula during the final centuries BC.
Charlemagne
Charlemagne (2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor, of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire, from 800, holding these titles until his death in 814.
Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz
Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz y Menduiña (April 7, 1893, in Madrid – July 8, 1984, in Ávila) was a Spanish scholar, politician and orator.
See Vascones and Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz
Commentarii de Bello Gallico (italic), also Bellum Gallicum (italic), is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative.
See Vascones and Commentarii de Bello Gallico
Didimus
Didimus is a genus of beetles of the family Passalidae.
Duchy of Gascony
The Duchy of Gascony or Duchy of Vasconia was a duchy located in present-day southwestern France and northeastern Spain, an area encompassing the modern region of Gascony.
See Vascones and Duchy of Gascony
Ebro
The Ebro (Spanish and Basque; Ebre) is a river of the north and northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, in Spain.
Einhard
Einhard (also Eginhard or Einhart; E(g)inhardus; 775 – 14 March 840) was a Frankish scholar and courtier.
Ejea de los Caballeros
Ejea de los Caballeros (Exeya d'os Caballers; commonly known simply as Ejea) is a town and municipality in the province of Zaragoza, part of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain.
See Vascones and Ejea de los Caballeros
Feudalism
Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was a combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe from the 9th to 15th centuries.
Francia
The Kingdom of the Franks (Regnum Francorum), also known as the Frankish Kingdom, the Frankish Empire (Imperium Francorum) or Francia, was the largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe.
French Basque Country
The French Basque Country, or Northern Basque Country (Iparralde,; Pays basque; País Vasco francés), is a region lying on the west of the French department of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
See Vascones and French Basque Country
Gallia Aquitania
Gallia Aquitania, also known as Aquitaine or Aquitaine Gaul, was a province of the Roman Empire.
See Vascones and Gallia Aquitania
Gascon dialect
Gascon is the vernacular Romance variety spoken mainly in the region of Gascony, France.
See Vascones and Gascon dialect
Gascony
Gascony (Gascogne; Gasconha; Gaskoinia) was a province of the southwestern Kingdom of France that succeeded the Duchy of Gascony (602–1453).
Gaul
Gaul (Gallia) was a region of Western Europe first clearly described by the Romans, encompassing present-day France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, and Northern Italy.
Germanic peoples
The Germanic peoples were tribal groups who once occupied Northwestern and Central Europe and Scandinavia during antiquity and into the early Middle Ages.
See Vascones and Germanic peoples
Gipuzkoa
Gipuzkoa (Guipúzcoa; Guipuscoa) is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the autonomous community of the Basque Country.
Gregory of Tours
Gregory of Tours (born italic; 30 November – 17 November 594 AD) was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours during the Merovingian period and is known as the "father of French history".
See Vascones and Gregory of Tours
Hispania
Hispania (Hispanía; Hispānia) was the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula.
Hispania Tarraconensis
Hispania Tarraconensis was one of three Roman provinces in Hispania. Vascones and Hispania Tarraconensis are ancient history of the Basque Country.
See Vascones and Hispania Tarraconensis
Iberian language
The Iberian language was the language of an indigenous western European people identified by Greek and Roman sources who lived in the eastern and southeastern regions of the Iberian Peninsula in the pre-Migration Era (before about AD 375).
See Vascones and Iberian language
Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula (IPA), also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in south-western Europe, defining the westernmost edge of Eurasia.
See Vascones and Iberian Peninsula
Jaca
Jaca (in Aragonese: Chaca or Xaca) is a city of northeastern Spain in the province of Huesca, located near the Pyrenees and the border with France.
John of Biclaro
John of Biclaro, Biclar, or Biclarum (c. 540 – after 621), also Iohannes Biclarensis, was a Visigoth chronicler.
See Vascones and John of Biclaro
Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (12 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman.
See Vascones and Julius Caesar
Jupiter (god)
Jupiter (Iūpiter or Iuppiter, from Proto-Italic *djous "day, sky" + *patēr "father", thus "sky father" Greek: Δίας or Ζεύς), also known as Jove (gen. Iovis), is the god of the sky and thunder, and king of the gods in ancient Roman religion and mythology.
See Vascones and Jupiter (god)
Kingdom of Navarre
The Kingdom of Navarre, originally the Kingdom of Pamplona, was a Basque kingdom that occupied lands on both sides of the western Pyrenees, with its northernmost areas originally reaching the Atlantic Ocean (Bay of Biscay), between present-day Spain and France.
See Vascones and Kingdom of Navarre
Koldo Mitxelena
Koldo Mitxelena Elissalt (also known as Luis Michelena; 1915, Errenteria, Gipuzkoa – 11 October 1987, San Sebastián) was an eminent Spanish Basque linguist.
See Vascones and Koldo Mitxelena
Koldo Zuazo
Koldo Zuazo (born 1956) is a Basque linguist, professor at the University of the Basque Country and specialist in Basque language dialectology and sociolinguistics.
La Rioja
La Rioja is an autonomous community and province in Spain, in the north of the Iberian Peninsula.
Languages of the Caucasus
The Caucasian languages comprise a large and extremely varied array of languages spoken by more than ten million people in and around the Caucasus Mountains, which lie between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
See Vascones and Languages of the Caucasus
Late Basquisation
Late Basquisation is a minority hypothesis that dates the arrival of the first speakers of the Basque language in northeastern Iberia from Aquitaine to the 5th or 6th century AD – as opposed to the mainstream view of it being the last remaining descendant of one of the pre-Indo-European languages of Prehistoric Europe.
See Vascones and Late Basquisation
Lerga
Lerga is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain.
List of the 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). Vascones and list of the Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula are pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula.
See Vascones and List of the Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula
Liuvigild
Liuvigild, Leuvigild, Leovigild, or Leovigildo (Spanish and Portuguese), (519 – 586) was a Visigothic King of Hispania and Septimania from 568 to 586.
Livy
Titus Livius (59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy, was a Roman historian.
Loire
The Loire (Léger; Lêre; Liger; Liger) is the longest river in France and the 171st longest in the world.
Los Arcos
Los Arcos is a town and Spanish municipality, in the Chartered Community of Navarre, situated in the administrative division of Estella, in the region of East Estella and is 62 km from the capital of the community, Pamplona.
Migration Period
The Migration Period (circa 300 to 600 AD), also known as the Barbarian Invasions, was a period in European history marked by large-scale migrations that saw the fall of the Western Roman Empire and subsequent settlement of its former territories by various tribes, and the establishment of the post-Roman kingdoms.
See Vascones and Migration Period
Mint (facility)
A mint is an industrial facility which manufactures coins that can be used as currency.
See Vascones and Mint (facility)
Natural History (Pliny)
The Natural History (Naturalis Historia) is a Latin work by Pliny the Elder.
See Vascones and Natural History (Pliny)
Navarre
Navarre, officially the Chartered Community of Navarre, is a landlocked foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, bordering the Basque Autonomous Community, La Rioja, and Aragon in Spain and Nouvelle-Aquitaine in France.
Oiartzun
Oiartzun (Oiartzun, Oyarzun) is a town and municipality located in the Basque Country, in the province of Gipuzkoa lying at the foot of the massif Aiako Harria (Peñas de Aya in Spanish).
Oiasso
Oiasso,Ptolemy, 2, 6, 10 OiasonaStrabo, Geographia III, 4, 10. Vascones and Oiasso are ancient history of the Basque Country.
Oléron
The Isle of Oléron or Oléron Island (île d'Oléron,; Saintongese: ilâte d'Olerun; Uliaros insula) is an island off the Atlantic coast of France (due west of Rochefort), on the southern side of the Pertuis d'Antioche strait.
Origin of the Basques
The origin of the Basques and the Basque language is a controversial topic that has given rise to numerous hypotheses.
See Vascones and Origin of the Basques
Pamplona
Pamplona (Iruña) is the capital city of the Chartered Community of Navarre, in Spain.
Pliny the Elder
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.
See Vascones and Pliny the Elder
Pompey
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (29 September 106 BC – 28 September 48 BC), known in English as Pompey or Pompey the Great, was a general and statesman of the Roman Republic.
Pomponius Mela
Pomponius Mela, who wrote around AD 43, was the earliest known Roman geographer.
See Vascones and Pomponius Mela
Proto-Basque language
Proto-Basque (aitzineuskara; protoeuskera, protovasco; proto-basque) is a reconstructed ancient stage of the Basque language.
See Vascones and Proto-Basque language
Province of Huesca
Huesca (Uesca, Osca), officially Huesca/Uesca, is a province of northeastern Spain, in northern Aragon.
See Vascones and Province of Huesca
Province of Zaragoza
Zaragoza, also called Saragossa in English, is a province of northern Spain, in the central part of the autonomous community of Aragon.
See Vascones and Province of Zaragoza
Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (Πτολεμαῖος,; Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science.
Pyrenees
The Pyrenees are a mountain range straddling the border of France and Spain.
Roman Empire
The Roman Empire was the state ruled by the Romans following Octavian's assumption of sole rule under the Principate in 27 BC, the post-Republican state of ancient Rome.
Roman mythology
Roman mythology is the body of myths of ancient Rome as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans, and is a form of Roman folklore.
See Vascones and Roman mythology
Sarmatians
The Sarmatians (Sarmatai; Latin: Sarmatae) were a large confederation of ancient Iranian equestrian nomadic peoples who dominated the Pontic steppe from about the 3rd century BC to the 4th century AD.
Sertorian War
The Sertorian War was a civil war fought from 80 to 72 BC between two Roman factions, one led by Quintus Sertorius and another led by the senate as constituted in the aftermath of Sulla's civil war.
See Vascones and Sertorian War
Spaniards
Spaniards, or Spanish people, are a people native to Spain.
Strabo
StraboStrabo (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed.
Suebi
The Suebi (also spelled Suevi) or Suebians were a large group of Germanic peoples originally from the Elbe river region in what is now Germany and the Czech Republic.
Syncretism
Syncretism is the practice of combining different beliefs and various schools of thought.
The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
Ujué – Uxue
Ujué (Uxue in Basque) is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain.
Vandals
The Vandals were a Germanic people who first inhabited what is now southern Poland.
Varduli
The Varduli were a pre-Roman tribe settled in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, in what today is the western region of the Basque Country. Vascones and Varduli are ancient history of the Basque Country and pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula.
Visigoths
The Visigoths (Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, Wisi) were a Germanic people united under the rule of a king and living within the Roman Empire during late antiquity.
Vitoria-Gasteiz
Vitoria-Gasteiz (also historically spelled Vittoria in English) is the seat of government and the capital city of the Basque Country and of the province of Álava in northern Spain.
See Vascones and Vitoria-Gasteiz
See also
Ancient history of the Basque Country
- Ab Asturica Burdigalam
- Aquitani
- Autrigones
- Caristii
- Hispania Tarraconensis
- Iruña-Veleia
- Novempopulania
- Oiasso
- Varduli
- Vascones
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vascones
Also known as Vaceti, Vascons.
, Gipuzkoa, Gregory of Tours, Hispania, Hispania Tarraconensis, Iberian language, Iberian Peninsula, Jaca, John of Biclaro, Julius Caesar, Jupiter (god), Kingdom of Navarre, Koldo Mitxelena, Koldo Zuazo, La Rioja, Languages of the Caucasus, Late Basquisation, Lerga, List of the Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula, Liuvigild, Livy, Loire, Los Arcos, Migration Period, Mint (facility), Natural History (Pliny), Navarre, Oiartzun, Oiasso, Oléron, Origin of the Basques, Pamplona, Pliny the Elder, Pompey, Pomponius Mela, Proto-Basque language, Province of Huesca, Province of Zaragoza, Ptolemy, Pyrenees, Roman Empire, Roman mythology, Sarmatians, Sertorian War, Spaniards, Strabo, Suebi, Syncretism, The Guardian, Ujué – Uxue, Vandals, Varduli, Visigoths, Vitoria-Gasteiz.