Ligauni
The Ligauni were a Celto-Ligurian tribe dwelling near the Mediterranean coast during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
Name
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 3:35.
- ^ a b Falileyev 2010, s.v. Ligauni.
- ^ Barruol 1969, p. 215.
- ^ a b de Bernardo Stempel 2006, p. 46.
- ^ Talbert 2000, Map 16: Col. Forum Iulii-Albingaunum.
- ^ Barruol 1969, p. 188.
- ^ Rivet 1988, p. 16.
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