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Encyclopedia > Ligurians

Ligurian may mean one of several things:


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American Egyptomania Search (424 words)
The Ligurians (including Siculi) dispossessed the Iberians of most of western Europe, at about the same date, and in the time of Hesiod (85o B.C.) they held Gaul.
The Ombro-Latins wrested most of Italy from the Ligurians, but were, in turn, subjugated by the Etruscans.
The Kelts of Gauls suddenly appeared along the valley,of the upper Danube, driven, probably, by the Scythians, from the region of the Dnieper.
NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Ligurian language (940 words)
The Ligurian language was spoken in pre-Roman times and into the Roman era by an ancient people of north-western Italy and south-eastern France known as the Ligures.
Location within Italy Genoa (Italian Genova, Genoese (dialect of Ligurian) Zena, French Gênes, German Genua, Spanish Génova, Galician Xénova) is a city and a seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria.
Ligurian is sometimes also applied to a Romance language currently spoken in Liguria, a region of Italy, and in Monaco.
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