The Cessetani were an ancient Iberians (Pre-Ancient Rome) people of the Iberian Peninsula (the Roman Hispania). They are believed to have spoken the Iberian language. Their territory extended along the coast between the Coll de Balaguer and the Garraf Massif and was limited in the west by the Prades Mountains.
History
One of their main cities was
Tarraco, modern day
Tarragona. Although there are no remains visible of the Cessetani civilization, you can visit the Roman remains of a theater, a stadium and a Roman city wall. The Roman ruins of Tarraco are also listed on Unesco. Tarraco was captured by the Romans in 218 BC, after the Battle of Cissa, in which Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio triumphed over the Carthaginians during the beginning of the Second Punic War.
Culture
The Cessetani minted their own coins, almost ever only with the name of one of their main cities,
kese, but a few bore the inscription
kesesken in northeastern Iberian script that is interpreted in
Iberian language as a self-reference to the ethnic name of that people: from the Cessetani or from those of
kese.
See also
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Iberians
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Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula
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Ángel Montenegro et alii, Historia de España 2 - colonizaciones y formación de los pueblos prerromanos (1200-218 a.C), Editorial Gredos, Madrid (1989)
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