Carpetania

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Carpetania was an ancient region of what is today Spain, located between the Guadarrama, the mountains of Toledo, the river Guadiana and the mountain range of Alcaraz, including approximately, the present independent communities of Madrid and Castile. It was inhabited by the Carpetanos, a pre-Roman tribe. To the south dwelt the Oretanos, on the northeast were Celtiberians whose tribes are not further specified. On the northwest to the Vacceos and Vetones. This area was easily conquered by the Romans and quickly integrated culturally and politically. Thus it is practically unmentioned in the literature of the conquest. Its main urban nuclei (Toletum, corresponding to present Toledo; Complutum, the present Alcala de Henares, Consabura, the present Consuegra, Segóbriga (Saelices, River basin) and Laminio) acquired municipal legal statutes soon after the Roman conquest.

Carpetania is now a term used to indicate the virtues and defects of the Spanish national stereotype.^{[citation needed]} Some use Celtiberican in the same way.

It has also been used in Geography to designate the Central System, the mountain range that separates the North Plateau of the South Plateau, although that use (Carpetovetónica Mountain range, by similarity with the Cantabrian Mountain range or the Iberian Mountain range) has nearly vanished.