Berones

The ancestors of the Berones were Celts[2] who migrated from Gaul to the Iberian Peninsula around the 4th century BC,[3][4] to settle in La Rioja and the southern parts of the Soria, Álava and Navarre provinces.

A stock-raising people that practiced transhumance, their capital was Varia or Vareia (Custodia de Viana; Celtiberian-type mint: Uaracos Auta?

[9] According to a Roman epigraphic source, the Ascoli-Picenum bronze (ILS 8888, now at the Museo Capitolino, Rome),[10] a few Beronian mercenary cavalrymen later entered Roman service at the Social War (91–88 BC), fighting alongside other Spaniards in the Turma Saluitana[11] as auxiliary cavalry, under proconsul Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo in Italy.

Later during the Sertorian Wars, the Berones sided with Pompey[12] and subsequently aided their Autrigones' allies in the defence of their respective territories against Sertorius' incursion into northern Celtiberia in 76 BC.

[13] The Berones disappear as an independent people in the classical sources in about 72 BC, after the end of the Sertorian Wars, although some towns maintained their culture for a certain time due to a late Romanization.

The Iberian Peninsula in the 3rd century BC.
The extent of the Berones people is shown in light green. In other colours, the extent of the Celtiberians.
The Berones territory and their neighbors