In his version, they later changed their name to 'Celtiberians'.

The central and north-eastern Celtiberians soon followed suit.

Its origins date from the pre-roman epoch of celtiberians, who knew this town as Caraca.

Celts and Celtiberians typically lived in sizable hill-fort towns called castros.

Numantia A small town of some four thousand Celtiberians, on the upper Durius River in Nearer Spain.

But the so-called "Celtiberians" were enemies of Rome, and the Basques were Rome's allies (which was reasonable for strategic reasons).

There, when Greek and Roman geographers and historians encountered them, the established Celtiberians were controlled by a military aristocracy that had become a hereditary elite.

Celtiberians The members of that part of the Celtic race who crossed the Pyrenees into Spain and settled mostly in its central, western, and northwestern regions.

The earliest settlements began with Celtiberians, from the central Iberian Peninsula around the 6th Century B.C., and were followed by the Celts.

Less common is the assumption of Celticity for European cultures deriving from Continental Celtic roots (Gauls or Celtiberians).

Nevertheless, Roman administration would later incorporate the province of Britannia into the praetorian prefecture of Gaul, in common with Hispania, which had Celtiberians.

Syphax was apparently persuaded by his wife, Sophonisba, not to desert the Carthaginian cause, and he and Hasdrubal were joined by a force of about 4,000 Celtiberians.

In the middle of the 1st millennium BC, the Iberians mingled with wandering Celts (see Celtiberians) and with the civilization of Tartessos of southern Spain.

Cato quelled the rebellion in summer of the same year and reestablished control over the province, but he failed to endear himself to the natives or Celtiberians who acted as paid mercenaries for the turdetanos.

The influence of the Urnfield culture spread widely and found its way to the north-east coastal area of the Iberia where the nearby Celtiberians of the interior adapted it for use in their cemeteries.

Whilst the onomastic formula among the Celtiberians usually is composed by a first name followed by a patronymic expressed as a genitive, and sometimes a reference to the "gens", the Castro people complete name was composed as this:

Their earliest contact with Rome might have occurred during the early 2nd century BC, when they allegly fought as allies of the Celtiberians at the battle of Calagurris in 186 BC, being defeated by Lucius Manlius Adicinius.

The battle was fought between a Roman army under the leadership of Scipio Africanus and a combined Carthaginian/Numidian army, supplemented by Spanish mercenaries (Celtiberians), of which the Carthaginian part was led by Hasdrubal Gisco and the Numidian part by Syphax.

As a result of the defeat of Carthage, the Celtiberians first submitted to Rome in 195 BC; Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus spent the years 182 to 179 pacifying (as the Romans put it) the Celtiberians; however, conflicts between various semi-independent bands of Celtiberians continued.