History of Asturias

thumb|upright=1.3|Detail of the votive crown of [[Recceswinth from the Treasure of Guarrazar (Toledo, Spain), hanging in Madrid. The hanging letters spell [R]ECCESVINTHVS REX OFFERET [King R. offers this].]]

former kingdom on the Iberian Peninsula

thumb|right|350px|The Iberian Peninsula in the 3rd century BC. thumb|right|Galician-Roman Stele from Crecente (Galicia). Held at the end of the century, was dedicated to a deceased aristocrat called Apana, from the Callaecian tribe of Celtici Supertamarici, as can be read at the bottom of the stele itself.

thumb|right|350px|The Iberian Peninsula in the 3rd century BC. The Astures or Asturs, also named Astyrs, were the Hispano-Celtic inhabitants of the northwest area of Hispania that now comprises almost the entire modern autonomous community of the Principality of Asturias, the modern province of León, and the northern part of the modern province of Zamora (all in Spain), and eastern Trás os Montes in Portugal. They were a horse-riding highland cattle-raising people who lived in circular huts of stone drywall construction. The Albiones were a major tribe from western Asturias. Isidore of Seville

archaeological culture

archaeological culture of coastal Iberia

thumb|Map of Gallaecia

archaeological museum in Oviedo, Spain

Leonese noble (died c. 1012)

Gausón was a semi-legendary Astur general who fought the Romans in the Astur-Cantabrian Wars (29 BC–19 BC).