The Castellani or 'Castelani', (Greek: Καστελλανοί, Kastellanoi), were an ancient Iberian or Pre-Roman people of the Iberian Peninsula. They inhabited the bottom of the eastern Pyrenees in the northern Tarraconense.
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The Castellani are one of the groups mentioned by Claudius Ptolemy in his Geographia, book 2, chapter 5.[1] Their main settlements were:
- Sebendunum (Σεβένδοννον), modern day Besalú
- Beseda (Βέσηδα), Sant Joan de les Abadesses
- Egosa (Ἐγῶσα)
- Basi (Βάσι)
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edit- Ángel Montenegro et alii, Historia de España 2 - colonizaciones y formación de los pueblos prerromanos (1200-218 a.C), Editorial Gredos, Madrid (1989) ISBN 84-249-1386-8