List of ancient Ligurian tribes

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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.

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Ancestors

Ligures

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. Iron Age Italy.svg
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. Gallia Cisalpina-en.svg
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. Regio IX Liguria.jpg
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 Salyens villes map-fr.svg
Map 5: Tribal groups of ancient Provence and their settlements

Celto-Ligurians / Gallo-Ligurians

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.

Ibero-Ligurians

Possible Ligurian tribes

Map 6: Simplified map of the ancient tribes of Corsica Corsica-Romana.jpg
Map 6: Simplified map of the ancient tribes of Corsica

In the islands of Corsica and far northern Sardinia dwelt a group of tribes called Corsi (Ancient Corsicans or Paleo-Corsicans) that may have been related to the Ligures or part of them. The Rutuli were a people that some modern scholars think were related to the Ligurians

The Corsi were an ancient people of Sardinia and Corsica, to which they gave the name. They dwelt at the extreme northeast of Sardinia, in the region today known as Gallura. [4]

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.
  4. ↑ Ptolemy's Geography online

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