Greek pioneers from the island of Rhodes …
Years: 621BCE - 478BCE
Greek pioneers from the island of Rhodes land in Spain in the eighth century BCE.
The Greek colony at Massilia (later Marseille) maintains commercial ties with the Celtiberians in what is now Catalonia (Spanish, Cataluna; Catalan, Catalunya).
In the sixth century BCE, Massilians found a polis at Ampurias, the first of several established on the Mediterranean coast of the peninsula.
Locations
Groups
- Iberians
- Rhodes, City-States of
- Celts
- Greece, classical
- Greeks, Classical
- Massalia (Ionian Greek) city-state of
- Celtiberians
