Ingauni
The Ingauni were a
Name
They are mentioned as Ingauni by Livy (late 1st c. BC),[1] Ingaunoi (”Iγγαυνοι) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD),[2] and as Ingaunis by Pliny (1st c. AD).[3][4]
A Celtic etymology has been suggested by
The modern city of Albenga, attested as oppidum Album Ingaunum by Pliny and as Albingaunum by Strabo, is named after the Ligurian tribe.[6]
Geography
The Ingauni lived on the Mediterranean coast, around Album Ingaunum (modern Albenga) and Lucus Bormani (Diano Marina).[7] Their territory was located east of the Intimilii, and south of the Epanterii.[8]
Their chief town was known as Album Igaunum or Albingaunum.[8]
History
Punic War
By the 3rd century BC, the prosperity of thriving Ligurian coastal centres led to recurrent conflicts with mountainous tribes conducting raids on their richer neighbours.[9] During the Second Punic War (218–201 BC), Mago Barca made an alliance in 205 BC with the Ingauni to secure a foothold on the Italian coast. He helped them in their fight against the Epanterii, who lived above them on the hills and raided their territory. He had previously destroyed the Ingaunian rival Genoa, thus allowing them to potentially become the dominant force on the northwestern coast of Italy. Fearing that Mago may unite Gauls and Ligurians against them, the Romans reacted by sending troops to the region and defeated Mago and its allies. In 201 BC, the Roman consul Publius Aelius Paetus signed a peace treaty with the Ingauni to secure the part of the trading route they controlled between Iberia, Massalia and Rome.[10][11]
Roman conquest
In 185 BC, a consular army led by
In 180 BC, the consul Aulus Postumius Albinus, after vanquishing the nearby mountain Ligurians, felt the need to send ships to reconnoiter the shores of the Ingauni and Intemelii, which suggests that they were still considered by Rome a potentially hostile tribe at that time.[13]
References
- ^ Livy. Ab Urbe Condita Libri, 28:46, 30:19, 31:2, 39:32, 40:25, 40:28, 40:34, 40:41.
- ^ Strabo. Geōgraphiká, 4:6:1.
- ^ Pliny. Naturalis Historia, 3:46.
- ^ Falileyev 2010, s.v. Ingauni and Album Ingaunum.
- ^ de Bernardo Stempel 2006, p. 46.
- ^ Giannattasio 2007, p. 136.
- ^ Barruol 1969, p. 368.
- ^ a b Talbert 2000, Map 16: Col. Forum Iulii-Albingaunum.
- ^ Dyson 1985, p. 92.
- ^ Dyson 1985, pp. 96–97.
- ^ Livy. Ab Urbe Condita Libri, 31:2.
- ^ a b Dyson 1985, pp. 102–104.
- ^ Dyson 1985, p. 103.
Primary sources
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Bibliography
- OCLC 3279201.
- ISSN 1578-5386.
- Dyson, Stephen L. (1985). The Creation of the Roman Frontier. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-5489-9.
- Giannattasio, Bianca Maria (2007). I liguri e la Liguria: storia e archeologia di un territorio prima della conquista romana. Longanesi. ISBN 978-88-304-2123-3.
- Falileyev, Alexander (2010). Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-names: A Celtic Companion to the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. CMCS. ISBN 978-0955718236.
- ISBN 978-0691031699.