abstract:The Turdetani were ancient (pre-Roman) people of the Iberian peninsula (the Roman Hispania), living in the valley of the Guadalquivir in what was to become the Roman Province of Hispania Baetica (modern Andalusia, Spain). StraboStrabo, Geography III, 2, 12-13 considers them to have been the successors to the people of Tartessos and to have spoken a close relative of the Tartessian language.