page_title: Ligures
section_title: Controversy and geographical area of ancient Liguria
hierarchical_section_title: Ligures / Controversy and geographical area of ancient Liguria
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Regione Liguria Augustea Particolare tratto da :Immagine:Shepherd-c-026-027.jpg
context_page_description: The Ligures were an ancient population that gave the name to Liguria, a region of north-western Italy.
  In pre-Roman times, the Ligurians occupied present-day Italian regions of Liguria, Piedmont south of the Po river and north-western Tuscany, and the French region of PACA. However, it is generally believed that around 2000 BC, the Ligurians occupied a much larger area, including much of north-western Italy up to all of northern Tuscany north of the Arno river, southern France and presumably part of modern Catalonia, in the north-east of Iberian Peninsula.
  Little is known of the Old Ligurian language, the lack of inscriptions does not allow a certain linguistic classification: Pre-Indo-European or an Indo-European language of the Celtic language family. The problem is closely related to the lack of inscriptions, and to the equally mysterious origin of the ancient Ligurian people. The linguistic hypotheses are mainly based on toponyms and names of persons.
context_section_description: The geography of Strabo, from book 2, chapter 5, section 28 :
  The Alps are inhabited by numerous nations, but all Keltic with the exception of the Ligurians, and these, though of a different race, closely resemble them in their manner of life. They inhabit that portion of the Alps which is next the Apennines, and also a part of the Apennines themselves. This latter mountain ridge traverses the whole length of Italy from north to south, and terminates at the Strait of Sicily.
  — Strabo (1st century BC).
  This zone corresponds to the current region of Liguria in Italy as well as to the former county of Nice which could be compared today to the Alpes Maritimes.
caption: Roman Liguria between the Po, Var and Magra rivers. Which corresponds to the writings of Strabo, located in the north of Italy, inside the alpine arc, in the south of the Alps and the Apennines.
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