Ligures

  • Ligurians
  • Veneti
  • Etruscan
  • Piceno
  • Umbrians
  • Latins
  • Osker
  • Messapians
  • Greeks

Called The Ligurians, also Ligyer or Ligurians ( Ligures Latin, Greek Λίγυες Ligues ), were probably the pre-Indo- population of the western Alpine region, in particular the Upper Rhine, western Switzerland, the Rhônegebiets, the Po Valley, the French and Italian Riviera and Corsica. Ligurians were located in Western Spain.

Overview

They were among the early European peoples and were the bearers of the Terra Mare culture, a Bronze Age culture in northern Italy. Is not much about their language before being mixed with the Celtic known except a few place names. So far, there are no inscriptions. According speculative, any statements on the relationship of the Ligurians linguistically.

A capital of the Ligurians was the coastal town Albingaunum or album Ingaunum (now Albenga ) of the Ligurian tribe of the Ingauni.

Ligurian tribes were, inter alia, that:

  • Apuan
  • Dekieten
  • Ingauni
  • Oxybier
  • Statielli

History

Since 700 BC the Ligures were pushed back by the Celts from most of their residential areas on the today known as Liguria coast, but were mainly in the Rhône valley, a similar mixed population with the Celtiberian Celtic tribes. From 238/236 BC, it came under the rule of the Romans, after they had already put in the time before auxiliaries in the Roman legions. 187-175 BC, they made fierce resistance wars against the Romans, who thereby suffered several setbacks. The consuls Marcus Publius Cornelius Cethegus Baebius Tamphilus and it was not until the year after their Consulate (180 BC) the subjugation of the Ligurian tribe of the Apuan who were resettled in Samnium and have since been referred to as the Ligures Baebiani and Ligures Corneliani. 173/172 BC, the Romans fought against the Ligurian people of Statielli which they defeated and enslaved. 154 BC hit the summoned by the Massiliots to support consul Quintus Opimius the Ligurian tribes of the Dekieten (Latin Deciates ) and Oxybier.

Secondary literature

  • Harald Haarmann: Encyclopedia of the extinct peoples. From Akkadians to Cimbri. Beck's series, 1643; Munich: C. H. Beck, 2005; ISBN 3-406-52817-1

Comments

  • Historical European ethnicity
  • Ancient ethnic
  • Alteuropäische culture
  • Italic people
Iron Age Etruscan civilization Latins (Italic tribe) Magna Graecia Alps Terramare culture Celtiberians Marcus Baebius Tamphilus Publius Cornelius Cethegus (consul 181 BC) Apuani John Zonaras Polybius
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