Carpetani

The Carpetani (Greek Karpetanoi ) was a Celtiberian tribe that was located in the Roman province of Hispania. Their territory lay south of the Iberian vagina Mountains. The main town of Carpetani was located at the present town of Toledo.

Etymology

The tribe's name is derived from the Iberian.

History

In the year 218 BC the Carpetani were involved and defeated during the Second Punic War to the banks of the Tagus River from Hannibal in fights. The Roman general M. Fulvius Nobilior subjugated in 192 BC, the tribe and founded at the location of the main town pillaged the settlement Toletum (now Toledo). After the fall of the Roman Empire they were subjected in the 5th century by the Visigoths. Toledo was temporarily (507 until the Islamic invasion of 711 ) the capital of the Western Goth. Gregory of Tours reported that the field of Carpetani was hit by 579-584 from a plague of locusts.

Swell

• Claudius Ptolemy, Geographia 2,6,56.
• Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia 3.6; 3.25.
• Strabo, 3,1,6; 3,3,1; 3,4,12.
• Gregory of Tours, Frankish History 6:33; 6.44.