Their territory extended from central to southern present-day Aragon, bordering with the lands of the Ilercavones in the east and the Edetani to the south. Some of their main towns were Salduie (Salduba in the ancient Roman sources), located in present-day Zaragoza, and the Cabezo de Alcalá near Azaila.
Culture
Coin from the Sedetani town of Salduie
Like other ancient Hispanic peoples, the Sedetani minted their own coins since the early 2nd century BC.
History
Submitted to Carthaginian rule in the 3rd century BC, the Sedetani were obliged to provide mercenary troops to the Punic armies during the Second Punic War, for Silius Italicus describes a Sedetani contingent in Hannibal's army, being led by two chieftains named Mandonius and Caeso.[1]
Ángel Montenegro et alii, Historia de España 2 - colonizaciones y formación de los pueblos prerromanos (1200-218 a.C), Editorial Gredos, Madrid (1989) ISBN84-249-1386-8
The Madeira, Azores, and Canary Islands were not occupied by the Romans. The Madeira and Azores islands were unoccupied until the Portuguese in the 15th century; the Canary islands, the Guanches occupied the territory until the Castilians.
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