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.

The Ligures or Ligurians were an ancient people after whom Liguria, a region of present-day north-western Italy, is named. [1] . Because of the strong Celtic influences on their language and culture, they were also known in antiquity as Celto-Ligurians. [2]

Liguria, the third smallest of the regioni of Italy, bordering the Ligurian Sea, in the northwestern part of the country. It comprises the provincie of Genoa, Imperia, La Spezia, and Savona.

The Ligurians (Ligures, Liguri or, to the Greeks, Ligyes (Αίγυες) and Ligystini (Αιγυστῖνοι)) were a people who, before and during the Roman republic period, could be found in north-western Italy.

Jan 9, 2025 · Ligurian tribes had lived in northern Italy since the Paleolithic era. It is believed they were responsible for the rock carvings in the Maritime Alps, and their burials in these areas date...

Apr 28, 2023 · There were three tribes, the Elymians, the Sicani and the Siculi, from which Sicily gets it’s name. The Siculi were the last to arrive on the island, and were related to the Italic peoples of Southern Italy, most likely the Italoi of Calabria, the Oenotrians, Chones, Leutarni, Opicans and Ausones.

Mentioned from Hecataeus (1) onwards as the indigenous neighbours of the Greeks at Massalia. Their territory is first defined clearly (by Polybius (1) and Livy) for the 3rd cent. bce.

The Ligurians were a pre-Indo-European people, perhaps a collection of peoples of varying origins, living from the mouth of the Arno River in present-day northwestern Italy, along coastal southern France, to the mouth of the Ebro River in present-day northeastern spain, and on the island of Corsica, by the first millennium B. C.E.

The Ligurians (Latin Ligures < * Liguses) were a protohistoric people of southern Europe. They inhabited the Italian region of Liguria in the Italian northwest and the French southeast in Nice (also in the Italian geographical area) that corresponds to the …

The Oxybii or Oxubii (Ancient Greek: Ὀξύβιοι) were a Celto-Ligurian tribe dwelling on the Mediterranean coast during the Iron Age and the Roman period.