Turduli Oppidani
The Turduli Oppidani or Turdulorum Oppida, were a pre-Roman coastal people in present-day Portugal, related to the Turduli Veteres and akin to the Callaeci-Lusitanians.
Location
They occupied the Portuguese region of Estremadura [Province (historical)|Estremadura]-Beira Litoral Province, where they held the fortified towns of Aeminium, Conimbriga, Coniumbriga, Collipo, Eburobrittium, and Ierabriga.History
An off-shot of the Turduli people, the Turduli Oppidani trekked northwards around the 5th century BC in conjunction with the Celtici and ended settling the present-day central coastal Portuguese Estremadura-Beira Litoral Province.The Oppidani seem to have become clients of the Lusitani sometime prior to the mid-3rd Century BC and then of Carthage at the latter part of the century. Their history after the Second 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 Consul Decimus [Junius Brutus Callaicus|Decimus Junius Brutus] devastated their lands in retaliation for them helping the Lusitani.
The Oppidani were certainly defeated and technically included in Hispania Ulterior province by the Praetor Publius [Licinius Crassus (consul 97 BC)|Publius Licinius Crassus] in the wake of his campaign against the Lusitani and Celtici in 93 BC. Again the Turduli Oppidani and the Turduli Veteres suffered the same treatment in 61-60 BC, when they were incorporated into H. Ulterior by the Propraetor Julius Caesar.