Laietani

The Laietani were an ancient Iberian (Pre-Roman) people of the Iberian peninsula (the Roman Hispania). They inhabited the area occupied by the city of Barcelona. One of the main thoroughfares of the city, Via Laietana, is named after the Laietani. They are believed to have spoken an Iberian language.

The Iberian Peninsula in the 3rd century BC.

Culture

The Laietani minted their own coins, which bore the inscription laiesken in northeastern Iberian script that is interpreted in the Iberian language as a self-reference to the ethnic name of that people: from the Laietani or from those of Laie.

Gallery

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  Funerary stele from Badalona
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  Ruins of the Puig Castellar Iberian village, Santa Coloma de Gramanet
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  Inscribed lead plates from the Iberian archaeological site Penya del Moro, Sant Just Desvern
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  Vestiges of iberian archaeological site Ca n'Oliver Iberian Settlement and Museum, Cerdanyola del Vallès

See also

• Iberians
• Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula

References

• Ángel Montenegro et alii, Historia de España 2 - colonizaciones y formación de los pueblos prerromanos (1200-218 a.C), Editorial Gredos, Madrid (1989) ISBN 84-249-1386-8

External links

• Detailed map of the Pre-Roman Peoples of Iberia (around 200 BC)