The Sedetani were an ancient Iberians (Pre-Ancient Rome) people of the Iberian Peninsula (the Roman Hispania). They are believed to have spoken a form of the Iberian language.
Location
Their territory extended from central to southern present-day
Aragon, bordering with the lands of the
Ilercavones in the east and the
Edetani to the south. Some of their main towns were
Salduie (
Salduba in the
ancient Roman sources), located in present-day
Zaragoza, and the Cabezo de Alcalá near
Azaila.
Culture
Like other ancient Hispanic peoples, the Sedetani minted their own coins since the early 2nd century BC.
History
Submitted to Carthaginian rule in the 3rd century BC, the Sedetani were obliged to provide mercenary troops to the Punic armies during the Second Punic War, for
Silius Italicus describes a Sedetani contingent in
Hannibal's army, being led by two chieftains named Mandonius and Caeso.
[Silius Italicus, Punica, 3.]
See also
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Iberians
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Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula
Notes
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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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