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5th December 05, 02:24 PM
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Thx 4 the warm welcome 2 everybody!
I would like to make a punctualization,... according to all my past school and university years, it seems now to be more or less certified that the Iberians were of north african origins, and arrived here before the fenitians, the greeks or the celts. At the time of the arrival of Celt peoples, they settled on the west and north area of the country. After centuries, they mixed with the local iberians and created some kind of "new" people, called by the romans "Celtiberians". So at the time of Roman conquest (they spent almost a century in doing so), they defeated first the mediterranean iberians, after that they conquered the intermediate and hard to fight intermediate celtiberian area (Google Viriatus or Numantia) and finally they conquered the rest of the peninsula, defeating finally the Gallicians few years after Octavius created the Roman Empire.
The Spanish celts are obviously from a gallic procedence. The nowadays remaining of celtic heritage in spain is just reduced to Galicia, Asturias (Fernando Alonso's homeland), and some parts of the provinces of León and Cantabria. The romans didn't include the Cantabrians between the celts, but not also with the iberians, so it seems that they were a mixed branch of celts and baskians.
So, due to my difficult search of scottish-celtic origins from the most ancient way :-D , I'll prefer to think that maybe during the War of Succession (for example Battle of Almansa) or much more during the Independence War against Napoleon, some scots regiments would have been around here just starting to taste the local pleasures of our beaches. Surely one of them saw the litle fishermen's village of Benidorm and thought about the future! now,... well, every scottish knows what's Benidorm nowadays!!!
Cya next time!
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