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.

Ancestors

Ligures

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

Ligures mixed with other peoples

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

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]

  • Corsi
    • Belatones (Belatoni)
    • Cervini
    • Cilebenses (Cilibensi)
    • Corsi Proper, they dwelt at the far northeast of Sardinia, near the Tibulati and immediately north of the Coracenses.
    • Cumanenses (Cumanesi)
    • Lestricones/Lestrigones (Lestriconi/Lestrigoni)
    • Licinini
    • Longonenses (Longonensi)
    • Macrini
    • Opini
    • Subasani
    • Sumbri
    • Tarabeni
    • Tibulati, they dwelt at the far north of Sardinia, about the ancient city of Tibula, near the Corsi (for whom Corsica is named) and immediately north of the Coracenses.
    • Titiani
    • Venacini
  • Rutuli (in Ardea territory, Latium ancient coastal city)

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

Bibliography

  • ARSLAN E. A. 2004b, LVI.14 Garlasco, in I Liguri. Un antico popolo europeo tra Alpi e Mediterraneo, Catalogo della Mostra (Genova, 23.10.2004–23.1.2005), Milano-Ginevra, pp. 429–431.
  • 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).
  • 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 2004–2005), Skira editore, Genova 2004
  • [1] - Source texts of ancient Greek and Roman authors
  • [2] - Strabo's work The Geography (Geographica). Book 4, Chapter 6, is about Liguria (that the author includes in Cisalpine Gaul).
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