The Bardili were a small, pre-Roman

Ancient Rome

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 people of Iberia

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 and an offshoot of the widespread Turduli

Turduli

The Turduli were an ancient Celtiberian tribe of Lusitania, akin to the Lusitanians. They lived in the south of modern Portugal, in the east of the province of Alentejo, along the Guadiana valley , and Extremadura proper...

 people, who lived in what is now southwestern Portugal

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 in the 5th-1st Centuries BC.

Location

They settled the present Setúbal

Setúbal

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 peninsula along the Tagus

Tagus

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 river mouth and the lower Sardum (Sado

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; Kallipos in the Greek

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 sources) river valley around the 5th Century BC, where they founded several coastal towns. The exact location of the Bardili capital Bardo remains uncertain, though the towns of Equabona/Aquabona (Coina-a-Velha), Caetobriga/Cetobriga (Monte da Rotura, near Setúbal

Setúbal

Setúbal is the main city in Setúbal Municipality in Portugal with a total area of 172.0 km² and a total population of 118,696 inhabitants in the municipality. The city proper has 89,303 inhabitants....

) and Salacia (Alcácer do Sal

Alcácer do Sal

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; Iberian-type mint: Ketuvion) have been identified.

History

In the mid-3rd Century BC the Bardili were forced to acknowledge first the suzerainty of the Celtici

Celtici

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 Eburones

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’ and then of Carthage

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 at the latter part of the century. Their history after the Second Punic War

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 is obscure. It is almost certain that the Bardili recovered their independence, which they enjoyed for nearly a century before being included into Hispania Ulterior

Hispania Ulterior

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 by the praetor

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Publius Licinius Crassus Dives

Publius Licinius Crassus Dives

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 in the wake of his campaign against the Lusitani and Celtici in 93 BC.