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Vaccaei

The Iberian Peninsula in the 3rd century BC.
Painting depicting the Vaccaei going out to defend Palencia from the troops of Lucius Licinius Lucullus (151 BC). (Artist: Eugenio Oliva)

The Vaccaei or Vaccei were a pre-Roman Celtic[1] people of Spain, who inhabited the sedimentary plains of the central Duero valley, in the Meseta Central of northern Hispania (specifically in Castile and León).[2] Their capital was Intercatia in Paredes de Nava.

  1. ^ Cremin, The Celts in Europe (1992), p. 57.
  2. ^ Ó hÓgáin, Dáithí (2002). The Celts: A History. Cork: Collins Press. p. 75. ISBN 0-85115-923-0.

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