Contestania

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Contestania was an ancient Iberian region on the southeastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula, inhabited by the Contestani people before and during Roman rule.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Contestania canonical 2
Contestani 1

Statements (41)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Iberian region
archaeologicalEvidenceFoundIn Alicante NERFINISHED
Cartagena NERFINISHED
Elche NERFINISHED
borders Bastetania NERFINISHED
Carthaginensis region NERFINISHED
Edetania NERFINISHED
conqueredBy Roman Republic NERFINISHED
culture Iberian culture NERFINISHED
economyBasedOn Mediterranean trade
agriculture
metalworking
existedDuring Roman Imperial period
Roman Republican period
pre-Roman period
hasCoastalFeatures natural harbours
rocky coves
hasEthnonym Contestani NERFINISHED
hasImportantCity Carthago Nova NERFINISHED
Ilici NERFINISHED
Lucentum NERFINISHED
hasTypeOfSettlement hilltop fortified towns
inhabitedBy Contestani NERFINISHED
integratedInto Roman province of Hispania Citerior NERFINISHED
knownFor Iberian coinage
Iberian oppida
languageFamily Paleohispanic languages
laterRomanAdministration Carthaginensis NERFINISHED
locatedIn southeastern Iberian Peninsula
locatedOn Mediterranean coast
mentionedBy Pliny the Elder NERFINISHED
Ptolemy NERFINISHED
Strabo
modernTerritoryIncludes Province of Alicante NERFINISHED
Region of Murcia NERFINISHED
southern Valencian Community
partOf Hispania NERFINISHED
Iberia NERFINISHED
religion Iberian polytheism
strategicImportance access to mineral resources
control of Mediterranean maritime routes

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Contestania
Description of subject: Contestania was an ancient Iberian region on the southeastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula, inhabited by the Contestani people before and during Roman rule.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Iberians mainArea Contestania
Edetani neighboringTribe Contestania
this entity surface form: Contestani
Ancient Iberia includes Contestania