Ligauni

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The Ligauni were a Celto-Ligurian tribe dwelling near the Mediterranean coast during the Iron Age and the Roman period.

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Name

They are mentioned as Ligaunorumque by Pliny (1st c. AD). [1] [2] A (colonia) in Liga in also attested in the Early Middle Ages (814 AD). [3]

The ethnic name Ligauni is probably Celtic, stemming from an earlier *Ligamnī. It has been derived from the root līg- ('to strike'), with Ligauni as 'the beating ones', [4] or from liga- ('mud, sediment, silt'). [2] According to Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, such linguistically Celtic tribal names suggest that a Celto-Ligurian dialect played an important role among the languages spoken in ancient Ligury. [4]

Geography

Their territory was located east of the Deciates, west of the Verucini, south of the Suetrii, and north of the Oxybii. [5] According to historian Guy Barruol, they were part of the Saluvian confederation. [6] [7]

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References

  1. ↑ Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 3:35.
  2. 1 2 Falileyev 2010, s.v. Ligauni.
  3. ↑ Barruol 1969, p. 215.
  4. 1 2 de Bernardo Stempel 2006, p. 46.
  5. ↑ Talbert 2000, Map 16: Col. Forum Iulii-Albingaunum.
  6. ↑ Barruol 1969, p. 188.
  7. ↑ Rivet 1988, p. 16.

Bibliography

  • Barruol, Guy (1969). Les Peuples préromains du Sud-Est de la Gaule: étude de géographie historique. E. de Boccard. OCLC   3279201.
  • de Bernardo Stempel, Patrizia (2006). "From Ligury to Spain: Unaccented *yo > (y)e in Narbonensic votives ('gaulish' DEKANTEM), Hispanic coins ('iberian' -(sk)en) and some theonyms". Palaeohispanica. 6: 45–58. ISSN   1578-5386.
  • Falileyev, Alexander (2010). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-names: A Celtic Companion to the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. CMCS. ISBN   978-0955718236.
  • Rivet, A. L. F. (1988). Gallia Narbonensis: With a Chapter on Alpes Maritimae : Southern France in Roman Times. Batsford. ISBN   978-0-7134-5860-2.
  • Talbert, Richard J. A. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. ISBN   978-0691031699.
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