Vascones

Location of the tribe of the Vascones in red.
A coin with BARSCUNES in Iberian script. It has been proposed that the word is related to Vascones.
Coins of Arsaos, Navarre, 150-100 BC, showing Roman stylistic influence. British Museum.

The Vascones were a pre-Roman tribe who, on the arrival of the Romans in the 1st century, inhabited a territory that spanned between the upper course of the Ebro river and the southern basin of the western Pyrenees, a region that coincides with present-day Navarre, western Aragon and northeastern La Rioja, in the Iberian Peninsula.[1] The Vascones are often considered ancestors of the present-day Basques to whom they left their name.

  1. ^ Classical authors, such as Livy, name cities as Calagurris, Cascantum and Graccurris as Vascon cities.