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Lacetani

500 BCE – 195 BCE (approx.)

An Iberian people of inland Catalonia who resisted Rome during the Second Punic War and Cato's campaign of 195 BCE.

Origins

The Lacetani lived in the interior of Catalonia, roughly in the modern comarques of Bages, Anoia and Solsonès, from about the 5th century BCE. They were part of the Iberian culture of the north-east and neighbours of the Ilergetes and Ausetani.

Rule and society

Their society of fortified hilltop villages lived from farming and herding. Ancient writers, mainly Livy, record them only in wartime, and their name is easily confused with the coastal Laietani, so many details are uncertain.

Decline and legacy

They fought the Romans under Gnaeus Scipio in 218 BCE and again in the north-eastern revolt of 197 to 195 BCE, when Cato stormed their chief town. Afterwards they were absorbed into Hispania Citerior and their name faded.

Few sources survive for this state; details are uncertain.

Lineage

LacetaniHispania Citerior 197 BCE – 27 BCE

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APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). Lacetani. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/lacetani
MLA
“Lacetani.” The Epoch Institute States Register, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/lacetani. Accessed .
Chicago
The Epoch Institute. “Lacetani.” The Epoch Institute States Register. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/lacetani.
Harvard
The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Lacetani’, The Epoch Institute States Register. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/lacetani (Accessed: ).

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