Celtici
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The Celtici (Latin for "Celts") were an ancient Celtic tribe of Lusitania, akin either to the Lusitanians and Gallaecians or the Celtiberians, living in what today are the provinces of Alentejo and the Algarve in Portugal, though some migrated north alongside the Turduli. Their presence was the result of a third or even fourth wave of migrations of Celts (or other speakers of Indo-European languages) into the Iberian peninsula (which the Romans called Hispania). Their migration most likely occurred in the 4th century BC, coming from the La Tène culture.
Their main cities were Lacobriga (probably Lagos in the Algarve), Caepiana (in Alentejo), Braetolaeum, Miróbriga (near Santiago do Cacém), Arcóbriga, Meribriga, Catraleucus, Turres, Albae and Arandis (near Ourique).
They appear to be the main responsables for the "celtization" of the Conii, in the Algarve.
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- Mattoso, José (dir.), História de Portugal. Primeiro Volume: Antes de Portugal, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 1992. (in Portuguese)
- Berrocal-Rangel, Luis (2005). "The Celts of the Southwestern Iberian Peninsula". e-Keltoi: Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies 6: 481-96.
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