Balares
The Balares were one of the three major groups among which the
History
Pausanias in his work Periegesis speculated that the Balares were the descendants of the Iberian and African mercenaries of Carthage, adding that in the language of the Corsi, "Balares" translates to fugitives.
Some of the Carthaginian mercenaries, either Libyans or Iberians, quarrelled about the booty, mutinied in a passion, and added to the number of the highland settlers. Their name in the Cyrnian (Corsican) language is Balari, which is the Cyrnian word for fugitives.
— Pausanias, Description of Greece, 10.17.9
In the Historiae, Sallust mentions a possible origin from the city of Palla, Corsica.[2]
Archaeologist Giovanni Ugas proposed that they derived from the first wave of the
After the
The Ilienses, reinforced by auxiliaries of the Balari, had attacked the province while it was at peace, and could not be resisted since the army was weak and had lost a large number of its members as a result of a pestilence.
—The History of Rome, Book 41, chapter 6, § 6
Strabo in the Geographica mention them among the "nations of mountaineers" that raided the Italian coast.
There are four nations of mountaineers, the Parati, Sossinati, Balari, and the Aconites. These people dwell in caverns. Although they have some arable land, they neglect its cultivation, preferring rather to plunder what they find cultivated by others, whether on the island or on the continent, where they make descents, especially upon the Pisatæ.
— Strabo, Geography, Book 5, p. 225
Balares tribes (Balari)
- Coracenses, they dwelt south of the Tibulati and the Corsi (for whom Corsica is named) and north of the Carenses and the Cunusitani
- Giddilitani
- Lucuidonenses / Luquidonenses / Lugudonenses / Liguidonenses (Lugudonensi), they dwelt south of the Carenses and the Cunusitani and north of the Æsaronenses (not to be confused with the Longonenses)
- Norenses / Noritani)
- Perfugae / Perfugae Balares
- Turritani
- Uddadhaddaritani / Uddhadaddhar(itani) Numisiarum (part of the Balares and not of the Ilienses or Iolaes[4]
See also
- List of ancient Corsican and Sardinian tribes
- Iolei)
- Corsi
- Paleo-Corsican language
- Paleo-Sardinian language
- History of Sardinia
- Nuragic civilization
- Sardinian people
- Torrean civilization
- Corsican people
- Ethnic group
- Tribe
Bibliography
- Ugas, Giovanni (2005). L'alba dei nuraghi. Cagliari: Fabula. ISBN 88-89661-00-3.
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