Ligauni

 ( Ligures ) 

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

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Name They are mentioned as Ligaunorumque by Pliny (1st c. AD).Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 3:35., s.v. Ligauni. A (colonia) in Liga in also attested in the Early Middle Ages (814 AD).

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', or from liga- ('mud, sediment, silt'). 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.

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Geography Their territory was located east of the Deciates, west of the Verucini, south of the Suetrii, and north of the Oxybii., Map 16: Col. Forum Iulii-Albingaunum. According to historian Guy Barruol, they were part of the Salyes.

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Bibliography

• Alexander Falileyev (2025). 9780955718236, CMCS. ISBN 9780955718236
• A. L. F. Rivet (1988). 9780713458602, Batsford. ISBN 9780713458602
• Richard J. A. Talbert (2025). 9780691031699, Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691031699

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