According to some sources, Bardulia is the ancient name of the territories that composed the primitive Castile in the north of what later became the province of Burgos . The name comes from Varduli , the name of a tribe who, in pre-Roman and Roman times, populated the eastern part of the Cantabrian coast of the Iberian Peninsula , primarily in present-day Guipúzcoa . Some assert that the Varduil also encompassed or assimilated the Caristii and Autrigones .
12-724: It has been speculated that a possible expansion of the Basque territories— Late Basquisation , an expansion to the Basque Country in the 6th through 8th centuries—occasioned a westward migration of the Varduli to what the documents of the Low Middle Ages call Bardulia . The first written mention of Bardulia is a 10th-century chronicle that describes it as a former name for Castile. The Chronicle of Alfonso III , written in Latin , uses
24-400: A wife, and where he heard of the death of his predecessor Alfonso II . The early 12th-century Historia Silense says of Ramiro I: " cum Bardulies, quae nunc Castella vocatur, ad accipiendan uxorem accederet. " The 12th-century Chronica Naierensis and the forged donation to the bishops of Lugo and Oviedo (11th-12th century) also refer to Bardulia . In the first half of
36-627: Is alleged to have increased, with peaks in the 6th and 7th centuries. In his 2008 book Historia de las Lenguas de Europa (History of the Languages of Europe), the Spanish philologist and hellenist Francisco Rodríguez Adrados has updated the debate by arguing that the Basque language is older in Aquitaine than in the Spanish Basque country, and it now inhabits its current territory because of pressure of
48-639: Is now called Castile"). The first Crónica General of Alfonso el Sabio , basically a compilation of earlier chronicles, makes four mentions of Bardulia , and the Annales Compostellani , says that Albutaman (probably Abu-Otman, a distinguished general of Hisham I of Córdoba ) died in 844 ( Spanish era ; 806 AD), in Pisuerga, " quando venit in Bardulias " ("when he arrived in Bardulia"). Addressing
60-541: Is observed all over Álava and Biscay , thus being concluded that the Caristii and Varduli were not Basque tribes or peoples, but that they were Indo-Europeans like their neighbors Autrigones , Cantabri , and Beroni . The Late Basquisation hypothesis puts forward the following evidence: Gascony Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include
72-626: The Pyrenees , and large parts of modern-day Gascony to the north. The "Late Basquisation" hypothesis set the historical geographical spread of the Basque or the proto-Basque language later in history. It suggests that at the end of the Roman Republic and during the first centuries of the Empire , migration of Basque-speakers from Aquitaine overlapped with an autochthonous population whose most ancient substrate would be Indo-European . The migration
84-484: The 13th century, Lucas de Tuy twice mentions Bardulia , as does Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada , in an allusion to Ramiro, that on the death of Alfonso II, " in Bardulia pro accipienda uxore aliquandiu fecit moram " ("he stayed some time in Bardulia to take a wife"). In another place Jiménez de Rada closely parallels the Chronicle of Alfonso III : " nobiles Barduliae, quae nunc Castella dicitur " ("nobles of Bardulia, which
96-564: The Celtic invasions. According to the hypothesis of Late Basquisation, on top of a more ancient autochthonous Indo-European occupation, evidence appears of important Celtic establishments in the current territory of the Basque Country (though apparently not in the Pyrenean valleys of Navarre ). Both cultures coexisted, the Celtic elements being socially predominant, until the arrival of the Romans . This
108-409: The claim that Bardulia was simply a scholarly term, the 20th century medievalist and statesman Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz y Menduiña defends Alfonso III from the charge of a scholarly error in equating Bardulia with early Castile, but his words leave the matter somewhat open: "It is very probable that Alfonso III did not commit a error of erudition in identifying Bardulia with Castile," and that "If there
120-458: The mainstream view of it being the last remaining descendant of one of the pre-Indo-European languages of Prehistoric Europe . The Basque language is a language isolate that has survived the arrival of Indo-European languages in western Europe . Basque (and its ancestors or closely related languages such as Aquitanian ) historically occupied a much larger territory, including parts of modern-day Béarn , Aragon , Rioja , Castile south of
132-480: The term four times, in various declensions . Similar passages recur in the texts of later chroniclers. There are two variants of the Chronicle of Alfonso III . Among the passages there are " Bardulies qui (quae) nunc uocitatur (appellatur) Castella " ("Bardulia, which is now called Castella") and " Barduliensem provintiam " ("the Bardulian Province") where King Ramiro I of Asturias was traveling to take
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#1732855593892144-472: Was an error in the identification of Bardulia with Castile, that error propagates from Castile itself in the 9th century, which is hard to reconcile with it being of [later] erudite origin. Late Basquisation Late Basquisation is a minority hypothesis that dates the arrival of the first speakers of the Basque language in northeastern Iberia from Aquitaine to the 5th or 6th century AD – as opposed to
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