TheTurduli Oppidani orTurdulorum Oppida (Latin: "oppidums of theTurduli" or "Strongholds of the Turduli"), were a pre-Roman coastal people in present-day Portugal, related to theTurduli Veteres and akin to theCallaeci-Lusitanians.
They occupied thePortuguese region ofEstremadura-Beira Litoral Province (coastal centralPortugal), where they held the fortified towns (Oppida) ofAeminium (Coimbra),Conimbriga (Condeixa-a-Velha, nearCoimbra),Coniumbriga (possibly Monte Meão),Collipo (São Sebastião do Freixo,Batalha),Eburobrittium (Amoreira,Óbidos),[1] andIerabriga (Alenquer).
An off-shot of theTurduli people, the Turduli Oppidani trekked northwards around the 5th century BC in conjunction with theCeltici[2][3][4] and ended settling the present-day central coastal PortugueseEstremadura-Beira Litoral Province.
The Oppidani seem to have become clients of theLusitani sometime prior to the mid-3rd Century BC and then ofCarthage at the latter part of the century. Their history after theSecond Punic War is less clear; is it almost certain that the Oppidani remained under Lusitani overlordship and bore the brunt of the first Roman thrusts into the Iberian northwest. In 138-136 BC ConsulDecimus Junius Brutus devastated their lands in retaliation for them helping the Lusitani.[5]
The Oppidani were certainly defeated and technically included inHispania Ulterior province by thePraetorPublius Licinius Crassus in the wake of his campaign against the Lusitani andCeltici in 93 BC.[6] Again the Turduli Oppidani and theTurduli Veteres suffered the same treatment in 61-60 BC, when they were incorporated into H. Ulterior by thePropraetorJulius Caesar.[7]
They were later aggregated by EmperorAugustus into the newLusitania Province in 27-13 BC.[citation needed]
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