In the footsteps of the first war: the Roman army between Galicia and northern Portugal

[@ldg508]

I could watch this stuff all day and never get bored

[@profjmas]

Thank you for enlightening us about the rich heritage in matter and spirit of our ancestors of this borderless region of Galicia-Northern Portugal. I do hope that local schools from both sides start taking our students more often to this type of field trips towards collective memory.

[@anselmdanker9519]

Thank you for this beautiful presentation on the Roman legions in the iberian peninsula.

[@Alfablue227]

As a proud Portuguese woman from Minho, particularly the Rio Lima area, I cannot be but fiercily proud of my ancestry, ancestors both Celts and Romans, for all that they did in this land became my home, my Portugal and which in turn became me and million other Portuguese and our Galego brothers and sisters. ❤️🇵🇹♥️

[@santicarvalhido-gilbert8437]

Galegos e Portugueses não são irmãos, são gêmeos....e Galegos e Minhotos e Trasmontanos não são gêmeos são o mesmo povo.

[@nunogonzalez4037]

Excelente trabalho de pesquisa arqueológica. Grato de ver maior enfase no período Republicano e de conquista.

[@robertomatias9222]

137 A.C. Estáis cambiando la historia! Enhorabuena y ánimo con las pesquisas!

[@bicudojosecarlos]

Muito interessante e merece um Visita Guiada. Parabens

[@antiimperialistasgz]

Muitos parabéns pelo trabalho.

[@josemanueldiezluarca2106]

Estupendo, muy didáctico.

[@negociadoplanificacion1703]

Un documental magnífico! Parabéns polo traballo!

[@fitobaldueza]

Muy interesante! Muchas gracias por vuestro trabajo!

[@raimundobenavides5329]

¡Hay tanto por descubrir, que tenéis una ardua tarea!. Congratulations for your efforts. Don’t forget that Asturica Augusta was an important place for the roman legions

[@johnmarmarinos1109]

Great! Shared.

[@joseluispereira2657]

Cousa Bonita! Bo traballo.. Moito nos queda por descobrir.!

[@lusolad]

Are there any good reading materials talking about the native groups the Romans were fighting in this video?....

[@mnolito]

Parabéns!

[@miguelcosta2833]

Parabéns. Tendes que atopar a Talabriga límica [HEP 7754: ANCEITUS VACCEI F LIMICUS ) TALABRIGA] coa que, seguindo a Appiano, Décimo Xunio Bruto Galaico tivo palabras cando estaba entre o Limia e o Miño [aínda que todos os que tratan este texto deciden que se trata da Talabriga lusitana].

[@temax]

So much history to uncover from Hispania. The funny thing is that Romans almost never called these lands Iberia, like this video. They called it Hispania. People need to remember that Hispania came before Portugal and Spain, both of which were Hispania. By the way, Galicia is a region of Spain, not a country.

[@manuelq.3359]

That it is a region of Spain is not incompatible with it being a country and with its own history.

[@alfredop.escoval7619]

The Romans took Hispania from the Punic ī shāpān "island of the hyrax". And the Greeks called it long before the Romans as Hiberia. Even Strabo used the form Iberia for the land beyond the Ebro although Hispania was more comon.

[@santicarvalhido-gilbert8437]

Galicia is a nation, it has language, culture, history and identity of its own. Of course it is part of Hispania, but make no mistake, Hispania wasn't even a Roman province, it was a geographical term.

[@temax]

@@santicarvalhido-gilbert8437 No. Hispania has never been a geographical concept alone. Never. Since Rome it has a profound and clear political meaning. You are confusing Hispania with Iberia. And with regards to Galicia, I am sorry but it is not a nation. Since the french revolution and the appearance of political nations, a nation is formed with citizens under a Constitution. Galicia is not that. Spain is. France is. Galicia is a region. Nothing less, and nothing more.

[@santicarvalhido-gilbert8437]

@@temax Again, I'm not confusing anything. Hispania is a Latin geographical term which refers to the Iberian Peninsula and Africa (current Maghreb). Iberia has the same meaning but in Greek. Until the 19 century Iberia was barely used. It was the consolidation of Portugal as a separate nation-state in its liberal conception and the use of the term "España" in the rest of the Iberian realm (dominated by the successors of the Castilian monarchy) which led to "Iberia" to be reborn where "Hispania" had been the term of use.That is BASIC knowledge. As for what is a nation and what's not again, you confuse nation-state which is a sovereign entity and cultural nation which is according to most definitions a nation describes an entity which throughout the historical period has maintained a distinctive singularity with regard to its geographical context, such singularity being anthropological, cultural, territorial, and linguistic from which it surges a distinctive identity. Since the Iron Age (Castro Culture) Galicia has persistently kept a clear uniqueness in each of those aspects. Not only Galicia, also Brittany, Corsica, Wales, Scotland, Basque Country, Tirol, Sardinia, Catalonia etc which clearly constitute national realities without having any degree of sovereign as nation-states do. Note that I didn't even mention the word "country" which in languages such as Italian or even in colloquial Galician could be akin to "region" or even the part of the landscape that has not been urbanised. I hope this has brought a bit of clarity. Cheers.