Bastetani
Eth. Bastetani, BASTITANI, BASTULI (Βαστητανοί, Βαστιτανοί, Βαστοῦλοι), according to Strabo, were a people of Hispania Baetica, occupying the whole of the S. coast, from Calpe on the W. to Barea on the E., which was called from them BASTETANIA (Βαστητανία). They also extended inland, on the E., along M. Orospeda. But Ptolemy distinguishes the Bastuli from the Bastetani, placing the latter E. of the former, as far as the borders of the ORETANI and extending the Bastuli W. as far as the mouth of the Baetis. They were a mixed race, partly Iberian and partly Phoenician, and hence Ptolemy speaks of them as Βαστοῦλοι οἱ καλουμενοὶ Ροινοί, and Appian calls them Βλαστοφοίνικες (Hisp. 56). (Strab. iii. pp. 139, 155, 156, 162; Mela, 3.1; Plin. Nat. 3.1. s. 3; Ptol. 2.4. § § 6, 9; Ukert, vol. ii. pt. 1,pp. 308, 309, 315, 406).
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.