Contestani
Sign in to savethumb|right|Eastern side of Tolmo de Minateda hill near [[Hellín]] thumb|Sculptures found in the Cerro de los Santos ancient Iberian village Contestani () is an ethnonym of Roman Spain of the imperial period. It appears chiefly in the Greco-Roman writers Pliny the Elder (Natural History (Pliny) iii.iii.19-20), 1st century, and Claudius Ptolemy (The Geography ii.5 on Hispania Tarraconensis), 2nd century. Pliny might be considered the more creditable, as he was for a time procurator of the official Hispania Tarraconensis, a province of the Roman Empire encompassing all the north and all the east
Key facts
- Ethnic group.native_name
- Unknown
- Ethnic group.native_name_lang
- Iberian
- Ethnic group.image
- Ethnographic Iberia 200 BCE.PNG
- Ethnic group.image_caption
- Greco-Roman ethnography of the Iberian Peninsula after its occupation by Romans on the defeat of the Carthaginians. A good approximate date is 200 BC. The green represents the Iberian-speaking population. In that region the Romans applied different ethnonyms of their own devise. On what basis they did so or how closely they match any native names remains unknown. The names are often incorrectly interpreted as pre-Roman (they are Roman) or as the names of paleohispanic ethnic groups. Whether they might be or what they might be are not known. The only known paleohispanic group is the population of Iberian speakers.
- Ethnic group.regions
- right|100pxA section of the Albacete Province, the eastern part of the Region of Murcia and the southern part of the Valencian Community.
- Ethnic group.languages
- Iberian, Phoenician, Greek, Latin
- Ethnic group.related_groups
- Bastuli, Bastetani, Oretani, Edetani, Ilercavones, Cessetani, Laietani, Lacetani, Indigetes, Ausetani, Sordones
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- Part of
- Iberians
- Location
- Region of Murcia
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8 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Greco-Roman
- Iberian
- Archaeology
- See also
- References
- Reference bibliography
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thumb|right|Eastern side of Tolmo de Minateda hill near [[Hellín]] thumb|Sculptures found in the Cerro de los Santos ancient Iberian village Contestani () is an ethnonym of Roman Spain of the imperial period. It appears chiefly in the Greco-Roman writers Pliny the Elder (Natural History (Pliny) iii.iii.19-20), 1st century, and Claudius Ptolemy (The Geography ii.5 on Hispania Tarraconensis), 2nd century. Pliny might be considered the more creditable, as he was for a time procurator of the official Hispania Tarraconensis, a province of the Roman Empire encompassing all the north and all the east of the Iberian Peninsula (the chief part of the future nation of Spain).
A geographic ethnonym from ancient times, however, was not necessarily the name of a people. It might be a toponym. Perhaps the name of the supposed people came from the name of the place. In that case, anyone could live in the place and be counted as one of its people without the necessity to belong to an ingroup such as a tribe. L. A. Curchin did an etymological study of all the ancient names in Contestani and Edetani to the north of it. The implied distribution was multilingual and therefore multiethnic: 14% Iberian, 3% Punic, 35% Indo-European, including 19% Greek and 18% Latin, the rest uncertain.