List of ancient Ligurian tribes

The Ligures (singular Ligus or Ligur; English: Ligurians) were an ancient Indo-European people who appear to have originated in, and gave their name to, Liguria, a region of north-western Italy.[1] Elements of the Ligures appear to have migrated to other areas of western Europe, including the Iberian Peninsula.

Map 2: Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy. Ligurians are located in the upper left corner of the map.
Map 3: Peoples of Cisalpine Gaul, 391–192 BC. among them showing the Ligures in the southern Alps and northern Apennines on the northern coast of the Ligurian Sea.
Map 4: The Roman Regio IX Liguria.

According to numerous studies, this ancient population lived divided into tribes, counting dozens of them:[2]

Ligures mixed with other peoples

Map 5: Tribal groups of ancient Provence and their settlements

May have been Celtic tribes influenced by Ligurians, heavyly Celticized Ligurian tribes that shifted to a Celtic ethnolinguistic identity or mixed Celtic-Ligurian tribes. They dwelt in southeastern Transalpine Gaul and northwestern Cisalpine Gaul, mainly in the Western Alps regions, Rhodanus eastern basin and upper Po river basin.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Liguria", in William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854)
  2. ↑ "Tutto sui Liguri: chi sono, da dove provengono" (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-05-12.
  3. ↑ "Comune di Follo » Un po' di Storia" (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-05-12.

Bibliography

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  • ARSLAN E. A. 2004 c.s., Liguri e Galli in Lomellina, in I Liguri. Un antico popolo europeo tra Alpi e Mediterraneo, Saggi Mostra (Genova, 23.10.2004–23.1.2005).
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  • - Source texts of ancient Greek and Roman authors
  • - Strabo's work The Geography (Geographica). Book 4, Chapter 6, is about Liguria (that the author includes in Cisalpine Gaul).