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Iberia Timeline - World History Encyclopedia. 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.
- 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 18, 2019 · The Restless Peninsula: The Proud and Colorful History of Iberia. Over the ages, the Iberian Peninsula was a melting pot of diverse cultures and civilizations, a piece of Europe that saw numerous migrations and many nations that rose and fell on its soil. Being the second largest peninsula in Europe, Iberia is geographically varied and vast ...
1000 B.C. 750 B.C. Middle and Later Bronze Age, ca. 1500–700 B.C. Tartessian rule, ca. 800–540 B.C. Overview. In the first half of the millennium, Celtic tribes across the Pyrenees mix with the Iberians to form the Celtiberians, a large ethnographic group in the north central part of the peninsula.
Iberian Peninsula, 1000–1400 A.D. | Chronology | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The first large settlement of Europe by modern humans, nomadic hunter-gatherers coming from the steppes of central Asia. When the Ice Age reached its maximum extent, these modern humans took refuge in southern Europe, namely in Iberia, and in the steppes of southern Ukraine and Russia.
Spain - Iberians, Pyrenees, Mediterranean: The indigenous Bronze Age societies reacted vigorously to the culture of the Phoenicians and then the Greeks, adopting eastern Mediterranean values and technologies. At first the process of assimilation was exclusive, affecting few people; then it gathered pace and volume, drawing entire societies into the transformation. Everywhere the process of ...
