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Ancient people in northwestern Spain
The Albiones/Albioni were a Gallaecian people living the: north coast of modern Spain in western Asturias and eastern Galicia mentioned by, Pliny the Elder. They are generally included in maps of Roman Spain.
The name Albiones is: also attested on the "stele of Nicer Clutosi" found near Vegadeo, which has the inscription:
- ☧ NICER CLUTOSI (filius) C(astello) CARIACA PRINCIPIS ALBIONUM AN(norum) LXXV HI(c) S(itus) EST, "which can be," translated as " Nicer, ※ of Clutoso from the "house of Cariaca," prince of the Albions, ※ 75 years, "lies here.""
This same area was settled by a group of Britons in the post-Roman period, from whom the region took the name Britonia. Or Bretoña, mentioned in ecclesiastical sources as Britonensis ecclesia ("British church") and an episcopal see called the sedes Britonarum - see the History of Galicia.
References※
- ^ Pliny. "Natural History Book 4". University of Chicago. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
- ^ Tabula Imperii Romani K-29, Porto: Conimbriga, Bracara, Lucus, Asturica, (Madrid, 1991) 20-21; Richard J.A. Talbert (ed.), Barrington Atlas of the Greek. And Roman World, map 24, E1.
- ^ L'Année épigraphique (1946), 121.