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. Elements of the Ligures appear to have migrated to other areas of western Europe, including the Iberian Peninsula.
Ancestors
According to numerous studies, this ancient population lived divided into tribes, counting dozens of them:
Ligures mixed with other peoples
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.
- Acitavones
- Adenates / Adanates â slopes of the Western Alps (Maurienne-Modanne), Southern Gaul
- Adunicates â Andon área, Southern Gaul
- Albici â Middle and Lower Durance river valley, Southern Gaul (tribal confederation)
- Albienses / Albici Proper
- Vordenses
- Vulgientes
- Anatili
- Avantices (Avantici)
- Avatices / Avatici â Camargue â Rhodanus river delta, south of the Volcae Arecomici, in Southern Gaul
- Belaci
- Bodiontici â in Southern Gaul
- Bormanni
- Bramovices â Low Tarentaise, Savoy, Southern Gaul
- Briganii / Brigianii â Briançon, High Durance river valley, Southern Gaul
- Caburri
- Camatulici
- Casmonates / Cosmonates (in the area of Castellazzo Bormida)
- Caturiges â Chorges, High Durance river valley, in Southern Gaul
- Cavares/Cavari â North of Low Durance, Arausio (Orange), in Southern Gaul (tribal confederation)
- Cavares Proper
- Meminii / Menimii
- Ceutrones / Centrones â Moûtiers, in the western Alps slopes, Southern Gaul
- Coenicenses
- Dexivates
- Esubiani â Ubaye Valley, Southern Gaul
- Euburiates
- Gabieni
- Glanici
- Graioceli / Garocelli â Alps western slopes in part of eastern Savoy, and Alps eastern slopes, northwestern Piedmont in the Graian Alps
- Iadatini
- Iconii â Gap, in Southern Gaul
- Irienses
- Libii / Libici
- Ligauni
- Maielli
- Medulli â upper valley of Maurienne, Southern Gaul
- Naburni
- Nearchi
- Nemalones / Nemolani â in Southern Gaul
- Nemeturii â High Var river valley, Southern Gaul
- Orobii - in the northern Italian Alpine valleys of Bergamo, Como and Lecco
- Quariates â in Southern Gaul
- Reieni / Reii - in Southern Gaul
- Salassi (Gallo-Ligurian people) â Aosta Valley and Canavese (Northern Piedmont) (Ivrea)
- Salyes / Salluvii - in southeastern Cisalpine Gaul (modern Provence)
- Savincates
- Sebagini
- Segobriges
- Segovi
- Segusini - in Segusa (today's Susa, Piemonte)
- Sentienes / Sentii â Senez, in Southern Gaul
- Sigorii
- Sogiontii
- Suelteri / Sueltri
- Suetrii
- Taurini (or Taurisci) (Gallo-Ligurian people) â parts of central Piedmont (Turin region)
- Tebavii
- Tricastini
- Tricorii â in Southern Gaul
- Tritolii
- Ucenni
- Veamini â in Southern Gaul
- Vennavi
- Vergunni â Vinon-sur-Verdon, Southern Gaul
- Verucini
- Vocontii / Transalpine Gaul Vertamocori â Vaison-la-Romaine, Southern Gaul (in modern Provence, on the east bank of the Rhône and Vercors, southern Gaul.
- Vertamocorii â Eastern Piedmont (Novara). Said by Pliny to descend from the Vocontii.
Possible Ligurian tribes
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.
See also
References
Bibliography
- ARSLAN E. A. 2004b, LVI.14 Garlasco, in I Liguri. Un antico popolo europeo tra Alpi e Mediterraneo, Catalogo della Mostra (Genova, 23.10.2004âÂÂ23.1.2005), Milano-Ginevra, pp. 429âÂÂ431.
- 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, 23.10.2004âÂÂ23.1.2005).
- Raffaele De Marinis, Giuseppina Spadea (a cura di), Ancora sui Liguri. Un antico popolo europeo tra Alpi e Mediterraneo, De Ferrari editore, Genova 2007 (scheda sul volume).
- John Patterson, Sanniti, Liguri e Romani, Comune di Circello;Benevento
- Giuseppina Spadea (a cura di), "I Liguri. Un antico popolo europeo tra Alpi e Mediterraneo" (catalogo mostra, Genova 2004âÂÂ2005), Skira editore, Genova 2004
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