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    Vascones are often considered ancestors of the present-day Basques to whom they left their name. The description of the territory which the Vascones inhabited...
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    defeated and the Franks encroached farther into the duchy. The Basques (Vascones, Wascones) of the Duchy of Vasconia, one of the mainstays of the Aquitanian...
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    Celtiberians, South of the Iacetani and the Vascones, West of the Galli (tribe). They were later conquered by the Vascones in the 2nd century BC. that were allies...
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    the Pyrenees in the territory that Greek and Roman sources assigned to Vascones: Anthroponyms: Ummesahar, Ederetta, Serhuhoris, Dusanharis, Abisunhar,...
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    Soria). The area was once occupied by pre-Roman Berones, Pellendones and Vascones. After partial recapture from the Muslims in the early tenth century, the...
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  • Basque found in eastern Navarre can be associated with the Vascones. However, the Vascones appear to have been just one tribe within a wider language...
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    mentioned by Greek writer Strabo and Roman writer Pliny, including the Vascones, the Aquitani, and others. There is considerable evidence to show their...
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    the Kingdom of the Franks launched major campaigns against the Vascones. In 587, Vascones are cited as raiding the plains of Aquitaine, maybe to the west...
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    etymological link between the words "Basque" and "Gascon" – both derived from "Vascones" or "Wasconia", the latter being used to name the whole of Novempopulania...
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    such as Pliny the Elder and Livy, these regions were inhabited by the Vascones and other related Vasconic-Aquitanian tribes, a pre-Indo-European group...
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