![]() ![]() The Persistent Traces of the Roman Presence Hispania, the name the Romans gave to the peninsula, is allegedly a Semitic word derived from Hispalis (Seville). The earliest written records about the peninsula date from this period. the peoples of the coastal region generically known as Iberians had already formed a homogenous group of city- states (Tartessus, the biblical Tarshish or perhaps the legendary submerged Atlantis) influenced by the more developed urban, trading, farming and mining centres of the Eastern Mediterranean. Shepherds and sheep, the conquerors of grazing lands, played a key role in the geo-history of the Iberian Peninsula.īy contrast, in the 4th century B.C. With a relatively primitive social organisation, these peoples engaged in migratory herding, which consisted of alternating the grazing pastures in the northern uplands that they used in the summer with those of the southern part of the central plateau, or Meseta, used in the winter. The latter territory was inhabited by various tribes, some of them Celts. Hence, between the 12th and 4th centuries B.C., substantial differences emerged between the Iberia that extended from the Mediterranean in the northeast to the Atlantic in the south, and the Iberia of the peninsular inland region. At the end of this period, both civilisations were displaced by the Romans and Carthaginians respectively. until the middle of the 3rd century B.C., commercial and cultural contact with the Mediterranean civilisations was articulated by the Phoenicians (whose territories extended from the Algarve on the peninsula's South Atlantic coast to Iberia's Mediterranean shores in the east) and the Greeks (whose influence stretched from the estuary of the Ebro River to the Gulf of Roses on the north-eastern coast of Spain). and lasted until the 16th century A.D., which was characterised by the dominant role of the Mediterranean basin and civilisations.įrom approximately 1100 B.C. Another period in the history of the peninsula began around 5000 or 4000 B.C. ![]() Known as the Neolithic Revolution, this process consisted of the transition from a collector economy to a producer economy based on agriculture and stockbreeding. In any case, the remains of utensils and works of art found on the peninsula are certainly from this period, corresponding to the same hunter-gatherer cultures that existed in other parts of Europe.ĭame of Baza (Museo Arqueológico Nacional)Moreover, the Iberian Peninsula constituted the western boundary of a process of cultural dissemination that began in on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean around the fifth millennium B.C. Experts are still debating the origin of these early settlers, who may have entered the peninsula directly from Africa via the Straits of Gibraltar, but more likely arrived by crossing over the Pyrenees. Organization of Spain Key aspects of the powers and territorial organisation of the Spanish Stateįrom prehistoric times to the discovery of Americaīased on the findings at Atapuerca (Burgos province), estimated to be around 800,000 years old, the presence of hominids on the Iberian Peninsula dates back to the Lower Palaeolithic period.Constitution Content of the supreme rule of the Spanish legal system.Subscribe to weekly newsletter Subscription to the newsletter with the latest information from the La Moncloa website.Press Accreditation Description of the procedure to be accredited by the Secretary of State for Communication.Regulation for International Media Correspondents Accreditation of foreign press correspondents and special envoys.Information Offices Functions and list of the Spanish State’s foreign policy support bodies.Governments by Legislature Members of governments since 1978.News News from the ministerial department of the Government of Spain.Activity of the Council of Ministers Highlights of the press conferences held after the Council of Ministers.Functioning of the Council of Ministers What the Council of Ministers is and how it is organised. ![]() ![]()
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