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]The
Cynetes or
Conii were a people living in today's
Algarve and Low
Alentejo regions of southern
Portugal before the
6th century BCE (in what was to become the southern part of the
Roman province of
Lusitania).
Origin
Whether they were
Celts or pre-Celtic
Iberians hasn't been established. A third possibility is that they represented a pre-Celtic population who had adopted many elements of Celtic culture (namely from the
Celtici of Alentejo), with normal expectations of some intermarriage, and cultural influences from powerful
Tartessos to the east of them (in the region Romans would call
Hispania Bætica).
Inscriptions
Inscriptions in the
Tartessian language have been found in the area, in a variety often referred to as
Southwest script. The name
Conii, found in
Strabo, seems to have been identical with the
Cynesii, who were mentioned by
Herodotus as the westernmost dwellers of Europe and distinguished by him from the Celts.
Main city
The main city of the country of the
Conii was
Conistorgis, according to Strabo, who considered the region Celtic. In the local language
Conistorgis probably means "City of the Conii". The city was destroyed by the
Lusitanians, during the
Lusitanian War against Rome, because the
Conii had become allied with the Romans during the
Roman conquest of the
Iberian Peninsula (called
Hispania by the Romans). Its precise site hasn't been rediscovered.
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