According to
Strabo, the
Artabri (or
Arrotrebae)
[The common name to Strabo: Sir William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, vol. I, s.v. "Artabri".] were an ancient
Gallaeci tribe,
[Strabo, iii.153, Pomponius Mela, iii.1.9. (Smith)] living in the extreme north-west of the Iberian Peninsula, now the region of Galicia,
Spain, about Cape Nerium (Cabo Prior), outskirts of today's city of Ferrol, where in
Roman Empire times, in the 1st century BC, a fishing port existed which also traded in metals (silver, gold, tin and iron
) as well as wild horses
and most likely administered from nearby Nerium (
Modern day O Eume famous for its Middle Ages castle and cape Nerium) in an area dominated by the Artabri
) giving name to the Portus Magnus Artabrorum
(Form not just by the bay of Ferrol but
Ria of Ferrol,
Betanzos and Corunna). Strabo reports several seaports among the Artabri.
Ptolemy[Ptolemy, ii.6.22.] places them among
Galaeci Lucenses and gives their capital town as Lucus Augusti (now
Lugo).
See also
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Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula
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