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    Numantia (Spanish: Numancia) is an ancient Celtiberian settlement, whose remains are located on a hill known as Cerro de la Muela in the current municipality...
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    The Celtiberian oppidum of Numantia was attacked more than once by Roman forces, but the siege of Numantia refers to the culminating and pacifying action...
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    The Siege of Numantia (Spanish: El cerco de Numancia) is a tragedy by Miguel de Cervantes set at the siege of Numantia, captured and razed by Scipio Aemilianus...
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    in Spain and laid siege to Numantia. Nearby fields were laid waste and what was not used burned. The stronghold of Numantia then was circumvallated with...
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    Celtiberians of Numantia on the Douro. The first phase of the war ended in 151, but in 143, war flared up again with a new insurrection in Numantia. The first...
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    in scattered villages, though they also had a few fortified towns like Numantia. They had a knowledge of writing, metalworking, including bronze, and agricultural...
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    defeating the Numantines in the Numantine War. The Celtiberians of the City of Numantia, which had strong defensive geographical features, held off the Romans...
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    ISBN 978-0-85045-271-6. Mclaughlin, William (2016-05-04). "The Siege of Numantia: Scipio Shows Young Marius How to Run a Legion – Page 2 of 2". WAR HISTORY...
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    initial military experience serving with Scipio Aemilianus at the Siege of Numantia in 134 BC. He won election as tribune of the plebs in 119 BC and passed...
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    themselves in the night. At the end of the fifteen months of the siege of Numantia in summer 133 BC many of the defeated Numantines, instead of surrendering...
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    The Roman siege of the Celtiberian stronghold of Numantia in Spain in 133 BC...
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    several influential Roman contacts. Under Scipio Aemilianus at the siege of Numantia (134–133 BC), serving alongside Gaius Marius, Jugurtha learned of Romans'...
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  • the second century BCE. The earliest known example is at Renieblas near Numantia. Examples from the Flavian and Antonine periods are common in Britain....
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    intended as a patriotic work, dramatization of the long and brutal siege of Numantia, by Scipio Aemilianus, completing the transformation of the Iberian peninsula...
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    Tajo. They built hillforts, fortified hilltop towns and oppida, including Numantia. During the period of Late Antiquity or Migration Period a large number...
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    the Numantine Museum (with pieces from the nearby Celtiberian city of Numantia). Soria's football team CD Numancia is named after this city. It is one...
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    serves under Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus at Numantia. Scipio Aemilianus captures Numantia, after a siege of eight months, suffering famine and...
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    resistance. The Celtiberian stronghold of Numantia became the centre of Spanish resistance in the 140s and 130s BC. Numantia fell and was razed to the ground in...
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  • Author Director 1961 Ross Terence Rattigan Michel Vitold 1965 The Siege of Numantia Miguel de Cervantes Jean-Louis Barrault 1966 Henry VI William Shakespeare...
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    Lusitanians begin the Lusitanian War against Rome. 154 BC The Celtiberians of Numantia begin the Numantine War against Rome. Liu Pi leads the Rebellion of the...
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    reverses in Rome's past, Fronto writes, at Allia, at Caudium, at Cannae, at Numantia, Cirta, and Carrhae; under Trajan, Hadrian, and Pius; but, in the end,...
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    Rome expanded into Spain and came into conflict with Numantia in the middle of the 2nd century BC....
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  • Chao Samartín Cidadelhe Cola Monte Castelo Monte Mozinho Monte Valinhas Numantia Peñas de la Cerca Sacóias San Cibrao de Las Santa tegra Terroso Termantia...
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    units of selected soldiers. In Hispania Citerior, during the Siege of Numantia (134–133 BC), General Scipio Aemilianus safeguarded himself with a troop...
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  • settlement of Numantia in Hispania. Following a series of defeats, he concluded a peace treaty with the Numantines, which preserved Numantia's independence...
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  • (Anon. Rhetorica ad Herennium. IV. xxvii.) The Roman people destroyed Numantia, razed Carthage, demolished Corinth, and overthrew Fregellae. "We shall...
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  • by the Arevaci, Lusones, Belli and Titii, with the Arevacian city of Numantia as the federal capital. During the Second Punic War the confederacy kept...
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    became a problem; for instance, when Scipio Aemilianus was setting out for Numantia in 133 BC, he dismissed the camp followers as one of his measures for restoring...
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  • to: Places Numancia, Spanish spelling of the ancient Celtiberian city of Numantia, near modern Soria, Spain Numancia de la Sagra, a town in Toledo, Spain...
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  • BC) 134 BC – Siege of Numantia – Roman forces under Scipio Aemilianus Africanus defeat and raze the Celtiberian city of Numantia. Fourth Macedonian War...
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