CONTESTA´NI
Eth.
CONTESTA´NI (
Κοντεστανοί), a people in the SE. of Hispania Tarraconensis, E. of the Bastetani. Their country, called Contestania, extended along the coast from the city of Urci, at the E. extremity of Baetica, to the river Sucro, and corresponded to
Murcia and the S. part of
Valencia. Besides
CARTHAGO NOVA and Saetabis, they possessed the following less important cities: on the coast, Lucenti or
LUCENTUM (
Λουκέντοι ἢ Λούκεντον), Alonae (
Ἀλωναί), the port
ILICI (
Ἱλλικιτανὸς λιμήν: the city itself stood a little inland); and, in the interior, MENLARIA (
Μενλαρία),
VALENTIA (
Οὐαλεντία), Saetabicula (
Σαιταβίκουλα), and Iaspis (
Ἰασπίς:
Ptol. 2.6. § § 14. 62;
Plin. Nat. 3.3. s. 4; Liv. Fr. xci.).
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