10th Century BC
| Year | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 1000 | First wave of Indo-European migrations into Iberia, of the Urnfield culture (Proto-Celts). | |
| Bronze culture (Indo-European) in the Northwest of Iberia (modern Galicia and northern Portugal), maintaining commercial relations with Brittany and the British Isles. Emergence of the Castro Village culture in this Iberian area. | ||
| Bronze culture in the Portuguese Estremadura (not Indo-European). | ||
| Bronze culture of Portuguese Beira Alta (not Indo-European but influenced by). | ||
| Development of Tartessos, the first Iberian State mentioned in writing sources. Tartessos was a centralized Monarchy brought about under Phoenician influence and maintained commercial relations with the area of modern Algarve, inhabited by the Cynetes or Cunetes, and Portuguese Estremadura. | ||
| Emergence of towns and cities in the southern littoral areas of western Iberia. |
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