The
Vascones (singular
Vasco, from
Latin gens Vasconum) were a pre-
Roman tribe who, on the arrival of the Romans in the 1st Century, inhabited a territory that spanned between the upper course of the
Ebro river and the southern basin of the western
Pyrenees, a region that coincides with present-day
Navarre, western
Aragon and northeastern
La Rioja, in the
Iberian Peninsula. The Vascones were, most likely, the ancestors of the present-day
Basques to whom they left their name.