tribal confederation · Iberia

Mastieni

600 BCE – 230 BCE (approx.) · capital Mastia

An Iberian people of the Cartagena region, whose town Mastia marked the limit set on Roman shipping in a 4th-century BCE treaty with Carthage.

Origins

The Mastieni lived in south-eastern Iberia, around modern Cartagena and Murcia. Greek writers knew them from the 6th century BCE, and they belonged to the Iberian culture of the Mediterranean coast.

Rule and society

Almost nothing is known of their institutions. Their chief town, Mastia, is named in the second treaty between Rome and Carthage, of 348 BCE, as the point beyond which Romans could not trade or found cities. The region was rich in silver and lead, later intensively mined.

Decline and legacy

Around 227 BCE the Carthaginian general Hasdrubal founded Qart Hadasht, later Carthago Nova, probably on or near the site of Mastia, making it the capital of Barcid Iberia. The Mastieni name then disappears.

Few sources survive for this state; details are uncertain.

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

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