The Ligurians inhabited north-western Italy in the regions of current day Liguria and parts of Piedmont. They also extended into the part of current day France, Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur.
They were short of stature and known to be brave, strong and energetic. There is an open question as to were they, or did they mix with the Celts. They were a loose confederation of several peoples, the Inguani, Intemelii, Commoni, Euganei, Salyes, Tergesti and Trumplini ( I kid you not, but fascinating ).
To name but a few. To find all the Liguri tribes, or get more information I suggest you find the Ligurians here.
From about 2000 BC they controlled much of the Alpine areas in Italy, but were not prevalent in today’s Ligurian coastal strip. ( Interesting fact that my fatherline DNA points to the Italian Alpine Area ).
About 1000 BC The Orobii Tribe inhabit Bergamo, Como and Lecco and also Licini Forum and Parra.
Around 600 BC it is thought they merge with Celtic immigrants from the Rhine and Danube parts of Eastern Europe, as they begin to migrate south across the Alps and into Italy.
In 400 BC the Celts are beginning to invade more of Northern Italy to gain the fertile lands.
In 205, Hannibal’s brother Mago lands in Liguria. And by 185 the Iguani tribe is at war with Rome. They lose six towns to Appius Claudius. Four years later they are attacked by Aemilius Paullusm.
For the next 100 years or so, they are in constant battles with Rome. Eventually, during several campaigns in 25 BC, 16 BC and 15 BC forty-four Ligurian tribes are defeated by Augustus and in 5 BC a Roman monument is erected to mark the defeat and mark the boundary between Gaul and Italy.
Ancient Italian Tribes — Picenians
Click here to join our Facebook group I was asked to research the Picena by a member in my Facebook Group. I never heard of this tribe, so I thought let’s go for it! There is not a lot written about them, as they were a small tribe and not around for a very long time. What I did find was that they lived in a small area near the North Adriatic Sea ( see
Where Do Italians Come From — The Ancient Calabrian Tribes
There is evidence of the presence of a type of Homo Erectus in Calabria along coastal areas as far back as 700,000 BC. More recently ( 12,000 BC ) Stone Age there is a figure of a bull in the Romito Cave. The first villages arrive in 3,500 BC. Click here to join Italian Genealogy on Facebook In approximately 1500 BC the Oenotri or vine cultivators settled in Calabria. According to legend, they were Greeks
Where do Italians Come From? — The Ancient Sicilian Tribes
It is believed that the first people arrived in Sicily by sea as early as 20,000 BC. Most likely from Western and Central Europe. 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. Although
The History of Liguria
By F l a n k e r (optimized by Blackcat – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Liguria, the third smallest of the regioniof Italy, bordering the Ligurian Sea, in the northwestern part of the country. It comprises the provincieof Genoa, Imperia, La Spezia, and Savona. PortovenerePortovenere, La Spezia province, Liguria, Italy.© sds-studio/Shutterstock.com Shaped like a crescent reaching from the mouth of the Roia River to that of the Magra and from the French frontier
