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Vascones
Pre-Roman people of the northern Iberian Peninsula
Vascones
The Vascones were a pre-Roman people of the northern Iberian Peninsula, first named by Roman writers in connection with the Sertorian War of the 70s BC. Ancient authors place them around the western Pyrenees and the upper and middle Ebro, in country broadly corresponding to present-day Navarre and its borders, later organised within the Roman province of Hispania Tarraconensis. The language they spoke, called Vasconic, is known mainly from personal and divine names. It is generally taken to be either an ancestral form or close relative of the Basque language, and it is grouped with Aquitanian in a single Basque-Aquitanian family. Their territory was nonetheless linguistically mixed, with Celtic and Iberian as well as Basque-type names. The traditional identification of the Vascones with the medieval and modern Basques, when it implies a straightforward and unbroken line of ethnic continuity, is now generally regarded as a construct of early modern and nationalist historiography. The Vascones...
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