The Ligauni were a Celto-Ligurian tribe dwelling near the Mediterranean coast during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
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]
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]
The Ligauni were a Celto-Ligurian tribe dwelling near the Mediterranean coast during the Iron Age and the Roman period.
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]
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]