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According to Strabo
Strabo''Strabo'' (meaning "squinty", as in strabismus) was a term employed by the Romans for anyone whose eyes were distorted or deformed. The father of Pompey was called "Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo, Pompeius Strabo". A native of Sicily so clear-si ...
, the Artabri (or Arrotrebae) were an ancient Gallaeci
The Gallaeci (also Callaeci or Callaici; ) were a Celtic tribal complex who inhabited Gallaecia, the north-western corner of Iberia, a region roughly corresponding to what is now the Norte Region in northern Portugal, and the Spanish regions ...
tribe, Celt
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s living in the extreme north-west of the Iberian Peninsula
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, now the region of Galicia, Spain
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, about Cape Nerium (Cabo Prior), outskirts of today's city of Ferrol, where in Roman
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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 Narahio'' ''famous for its medieval
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castle and cape Nerium'' ''modern day Cape Prior'') in an area dominated by the Artabri) giving name to the Portus Magnus Artabrorum (Form not just by the bay of Ferrol but the three rias of Ferrol, Betanzos and Corunna). Strabo reports several seaports among the Artabri. Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (; , ; ; – 160s/170s AD) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine science, Byzant ...
Ptolemy, ii.6.22. places them among ''Galaeci Lucenses'' and gives their capital town as Lucus Augusti (now Lugo
Lugo (, ) is a city in northwestern Spain in the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia. It is the capital of the Lugo (province), province of Lugo. The municipality had a population of 100,060 in 2024, ...
).
See also
*Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula
This is a list of the pre- Roman people of the Iberian Peninsula (the Roman Hispania, i.e., modern Portugal, Spain and Andorra). Some closely fit the concept of a people, ethnic group or tribe. Others are confederations or even unions of tribe ...
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External links
Detailed map of the Pre-Roman Peoples of Iberia (around 200 BC)
Tribes of Gallaecia Galician Celtic tribes {{europe-ethno-group-stub