Vaccaei in 218 B.C.

Vaccaei — Carthage › The Iberian Client Tribes.

A grain-growing people of the Douro plateau, said to hold their farmland in common and share out the harvest yearly. In 220 BC Hannibal marched into their country and stormed their strong towns of Helmantica (Salamanca) and Arbucala, carrying off the great booty that provoked the Carpetani to rise against him.