Estrabón y el País Vasco, I: Contexto de la información, marco geográfico y los montañeses de la Cordillera Cantábrica

Abstract

It describes the location of the Basque regions. Some small pieces of information provided by Strabo are found dispersed through the second book of Geography. He does not focus on any region and only occasionally refers to a particular area as an example, confirmation or explication of general theoretical ideas. The two books of Geography in which the main information directly or indirectly related to the Basque Country is found, are the third and fourth, where Iberia and Celtica are respectively dealt with. This context that we are interested in examining has two quite distinct aspects: the editorial and the geographical. Information that Strabo gives about the regions that presently constitute the Basque Country is analysed below, in particular, with regards to the Cantabrian Mountains, since other regions will be studied in a following fascicle.