¿Váscones o Wascónes? Acerca del Ducado de Cantabria y la fundación de ciudades en el norte peninsular en época visigoda

Abstract

The Chronicles of Juan de Biclaro and Isidore of Seville news Visigothic foundation of two cities in Vasconia: Victoriacum and Ologicus. Traditionally identified with a point near Vitoria, the first, and the villa of Olite in Navarra, the second, this article postulates the location of both cities in the same territory and even the identification of both cities as a single one and a likely reduction to the Roman city of Velegia. Finally, it posits an identification of the Gallia Comata of the Hispanic sources with the Duchy of Cantabria cited in a passage from Fredegarius Chronicle and its relationship to the cultural horizon of the Aquitaine necropolis found in the Basque country.

Keywords

• Visigoths
• Victoriacum
• Ologicus
• Velegia
• Franks
• Basques