Viriathus was the most important leader of the Lusitanian people that resisted Roman expansion into the regions of western Hispania or western Iberia, where the Roman province of Lusitania would be finally established after the conquest.
Statue in Zamora
Statue of Viriathus in Viseu, Portugal
José de Madrazo's painting of the death of Viriathus.
The Lusitanians were an Indo-European-speaking people living in the far west of the Iberian Peninsula, around roughly to Central Portugal and areas of modern-day Extremadura and Castilla y Leon of Spain. After its conquest by the Romans, the land was subsequently incorporated as a Roman province named after them (Lusitania).
Lusitanian lunula from Miranda do Corvo (Portugal)
Ataegina by Pedro Roque Hidalgo (20th century), Museu do Mármore, Vila Viçosa, (Portugal).
Statue of Viriatus, the Lusitanian leader during the Lusitanian War (155 to 139 BCE).