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Cities such as Córdoba, Toledo, and Zaragoza harbored people of all faiths, as did the shifting frontier zones between the Christian-ruled north and Muslim-ruled south. Routines of daily life prompted regular interactions among people of different religions.
Aug 18, 2019 · The Hallstatt Celtic influence spread over the next 100 years, and by 7th century BC, the Iberian Peninsula was filled with diverse tribes and cultures, some fully Celtic – like the tribes of Celtici, Gallaeci, Lusitani, or Celtiberi – and others that managed to retain a pre-Celtic culture.
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Timeline. 600 BCE. Celts settle Iberia . 500 BCE. Carthage expands into southern Spain. c. 260 BCE. Timaeos is the first to use the term 'Celtiberian' when refering to Celts living in Iberia . 237 BCE. Hamilcar Barca arrives in southern Spain to expand Carthage 's interests there. He makes his base at Gades and founds Acra Leuce. 210 BCE - 207 BCE.
- Pre-History of The Iberian Peninsula
- Phoenician, Greek & Roman Rule of The Iberian Peninsula
- Islamic Conquest of Spain
- The Christian Kingdoms of Spain & Reconquista
- Creation of The Spanish Monarchy
DNA evidence shows that for thousands of years the Iberian Peninsula was a crossroads of sorts. Mass migrations came in several different waves. First was the influx of hunter-gatherer groups called the “Villabruna” who came to coexist with the original hunter-gather groups called the “Goyet”. Next was a mass-migration of peoples originally from An...
At the end of the Bronze Age and early Iron Age the Phoenicians began building settlements along the south coast of the Iberian Peninsula. The Phoenicians were a sea faring people from the opposite end of the Mediterranean Sea and were primarily interested in the trade of the metal producing societies of the coast. The abundance of precious metals ...
After the fall of the Roman empire there was a brief power vacuum in the peninsula. In its wake various Germanic tribes moved into the region, such as the Suebi, Vandals and Visigoths. By the early/mid 5th century, the Visigoths had conquered most of the peninsula. Only the south remained independent under Byzantine rule from 554-624. The Visigoths...
Almost immediately after the Arab/Berber conquest of Spain in the 8th century, the small Christian kingdoms that remained sought to win back their lost territory. At the Battle of Covadonga in 718 or 722, the Christians scored a major victory against the Umayyad. This victory is often referred to as the first of the Reconquista, or expulsion of Mus...
The timeline and history of modern day Spain can be traced back to the political union of the kingdoms of Aragon and Castile. Queen Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon married in 1469. Ferdinand ascended to the throne of Aragon in 1479, bringing the two kingdoms together for the first time. Historians refer to the two rulers as “The Ca...
Aug 20, 2020 · Autonomous cultural developments of native Iberians were stimulated by maritime powers that sailed west along the Mediterranean: the Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, and Romans, each growing in their imperial reach and providing a base for later political and economic developments.
When the main Mediterranean powers – Carthage and particularly Rome (third c. BCE) – intervened in the peninsula, there were two major linguistic zones: a zone inhabited by tribes who did not speak Indo-European languages, known as “Iberians”, which extended along the coast from lower Andalusia to Languedoc and inland as far as the mid-Ebro vall...
In the south, Iberian culture is influenced by civilizations of the eastern Mediterranean through trade and colonies established first by the Phoenicians, and later the Greeks, Carthaginians, and Romans.
