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Celtiberian meaning
A member of a Celtic people living in the Iberian Peninsula, chiefly in what is now north central Spain, before and during the Roman Empire.
Example sentences (6)
The falcata—curved and two-foot-long—was favoured by the Celtiberian fighters of ancient Spain.
Celtiberian inscriptions, using their own Iberian script, appear later, after about 200 BC.
It seems likely that Celtiberian split off before Cisalpine Celtic, but the evidence for this is not robust.
Recent findings of very early Roman gladii highlights that they were copies of Celtiberian models.
The Celtiberian source of the weapon has been reinforced during the later decades.
The weapon was developed in Iberia after La Téne I models, which were adapted to traditional Celtiberian techniques during the late 4th and early 3rd centuries BC.