The Iberian Peninsula in the 3rd century BC.Painting depicting the Vaccaei going out to defend Palencia from the troops of Lucius Licinius Lucullus (151 BC). (Artist: Eugenio Oliva)
The Vaccaei or Vaccei were a pre-Roman Celtic[1] people of Spain, who inhabited the sedimentary plains of the central Duero valley, in the Meseta Central of northern Hispania (specifically in Castile and León).[2] Their capital was Intercatia in Paredes de Nava.
^Cremin, The Celts in Europe (1992), p. 57.
^Ó hÓgáin, Dáithí (2002). The Celts: A History. Cork: Collins Press. p. 75. ISBN 0-85115-923-0.
The Vaccaei or Vaccei were a pre-Roman Celtic people of Spain, who inhabited the sedimentary plains of the central Duero valley, in the Meseta Central...
Celtiberians. The next consul, Lucius Licinius Lucullus, attacked the Vaccaei, a tribe living in the central Duero valley which was not at war with Rome...
dominated most of Celtiberia from the 4th to late 2nd centuries BC. The Vaccaei were their allies. The Arevaci were of Celtic origin and part of the group...
Painting by Eugenio Oliva depicting the Vaccaei going out to defend Palencia from the troops of Lucius Licinius Lucullus in 151 BC. The historian Appian...
137 BC Decimus Junius Brutus also got involved in a campaign against the Vaccaei, who lived to the west of the Celtiberians and not far from Lusitania....
Celtiberians. The next consul, Lucius Licinius Lucullus, attacked the Vaccaei, a tribe living in the central Duero valley which was not at war with Rome...
Lauron Valencia Sucro Saguntum Clunia Italica Lusitania Narbo Martius Vaccaei In 75 BC, Sertorius led the campaign against Metellus, while Pompey defeated...
Titti and Lusones as Celtiberian tribes, and occasionally the Berones, Vaccaei, Carpetani, Olcades or Lobetani. In 195 BC, part of Celtiberia was conquered...
Belligerents Roman Republic Allies : Kingdom of Numidia Arevaci, Lusones, Vaccaei, Vettones Commanders and leaders Q. Metellus Macedonicus Quintus Pompeius...
praetor Lucius Postumius Albinus celebrates a triumph after conquering the Vaccaei and Lusitani during his time as Roman commander in the province of Hispania...
raids on the Vaccaei, Turmodigi and Autrigones whose rich territories they coveted, according to Florus, coupled with their backing of a Vaccaei anti-Roman...
winegrowing areas. The area was settled in pre-Roman times by the Celtic Vaccaei people, and then by Romans themselves. The settlement was purportedly founded...
(Celtiberian Arevaci – Celtiberian tribe “Before or Close to the Vaccaei” – Are Vaci – Are Vaccaei) Belli Cratistii Lobetani Lusones – Western Zaragoza (province)...
Punic War. Additionally, there is evidence that they fought alongside the Vaccaei in 151 BC, and helped break the Roman siege of Numantia. It is also believed...
fame and needing money", made a peace treaty with the Caucaei, of the Vaccaei tribe, after which he ordered his men to kill all the tribe's adult males...
between La Armuña and Salamanca marked the border between Vettones and Vaccaei, the other pre-Roman people of the province. They were situated in the...
close to the River Tagus. His following campaign in 220 BC was against the Vaccaei to the west, where he stormed the Vaccaen strongholds of Helmantice and...
Since then, the metropolis has witnessed the passage of various peoples: Vaccaei, Vettones, Romans, Visigoths and Muslims. Raymond of Burgundy, son-in-law...
Mancinus was besieging Numantia, he withdrew upon learning that Cantabri and Vaccaei were present among his auxiliaries. The Cantabrian Wars began in 29 BC...
Marcus Fulvius Nobilitor undertook a campaign against an alliance of Vaccaei (from the northwest of central Hispania), Vettones (from west-central Hispania)...
regarding the effects of Illyrian piracy on regional trade. 220 BCE – Vaccaei and Vetton women fought in the siege of Salmantica against Hannibal. The...
war-like character, they made frequent incursions into the lands of the Vaccaei, who had a much more developed agriculture. Lucan calls them "Pale seekers...
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