Gallia Cisalpina III: Celto-Ligurian Culture

All of the tribes of Cisalpine Gaul are sometimes referred to as part of the "Celto-Ligurian" culture. Although some may be "Celto-Venetic" or other regional variations.

LIGURES
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligures

The Ligures (singular Ligus or Ligur; English: Ligurians, Greek: Λίγυες) were an ancient people who gave their name to Liguria, which once stretched from Northern Italy into southern Gaul. According to Plutarch they called themselves Ambrones which means ¨people of the water¨. The Ligures inhabited what now corresponds to Liguria, northern Tuscany, Austria (Noricum), Piedmont, part of Emilia-Romagna, part of Lombardy, and parts of southeastern France.

Classical references and toponomastics suggest that the Ligurian sphere once extended further into central Italy (Taurisci): according to Hesiod's Catalogues (early 6th century BC) they were one of the three main "barbarian" peoples ruling over the Western border of the known world (the others being Aethiopians and Scythians). Avienus, in a translation of a voyage account probably from Marseille (4th century BC) speaks of the Ligurian hegemony extending up to the North Sea, before they were pushed back by the Celts. Ligurian toponyms have been found in Sicily, the Rhône valley, Corsica and Sardinia.

It is not known for certain whether they were a pre-Indo-European people akin to Iberians; a separate Indo-European branch with Italic and Celtic affinities; or even a branch of the Celts or Italics. Kinship between the Ligures and Lepontii has also been proposed. Another theory traces their origin to Betica (modern Andalusia) and southern Lusitania (modern Algarve and Alentejo).

The Ligures were assimilated by the Romans, and before that by the Gauls, producing a Celto-Ligurian culture.


[Music: 'Rain Chant' by Amikaeyla And Ariana; pagan, Wicca-style music]

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[Nobeester]

Celto-Ligurian? Sounds more like an American Indian tribal song.

[pamle1]

@Nobeester Yes, sort've. It's a Wiccan song. It stands to reason that they must have had certain drums and chants during their seasonal ceremonies.

[davidrix79]

near my home is the hill dün(defenced hill by cenomans(belgic gaul),the town of treviolo(treviöl)comes from trivil(big town,celtic),and much more.comendun,diveded the low valley from the high,(down gauls,over retich(retia)

[pamle1]

Some scholars refer to the citizens who resided under Langobard rule as "the Roman population." This is a clear clumsy catch-all phrase, based on the former administrative rule by Rome. Those were largely "Romanized Celts," not Romans. Whether Celts (Cenomani) or Alpines (Camunni), they were not Roman in blood.

[davidrix79]

IN LOMBARDY,WEST INSUBRES(insubres,biturigi,som­e retics(vennoni,etc..)in EAST CENOMANS whit subtribes of orobi on prealps,redones,ambivareti,fro­m le mans zone.

[pamle1]

It should probably be Insubria and Orobiia today. Lombardia should be in reference to the whole of Padania.

[arianolumbard]

Belin! Celtoliguria nassione! Il resto al meridione!

[NakadekaikonuDaiko]

sto' video è una presa per il culo? Non c' è nulla di ligure, nè la musica, nè tanto meno le immagini, che sono tutte tratte dall' iconografia gaelica, germanica e scandinava!

Oppure in Liguria c' è gente che è convinta di essere svedese? lol

[demikede1]

To continue: The Ligures may have an Eurasian or Turanian origin, not limited to Western & Southern Europe. Ligures among other Italic tribes are indeed of Celto-Germanic, Mediteranean or Illyrian (i.e. Albanian) cultures of the Centum/Indo-European linguistic family, but Albanian is in the Satem group along with Balto-Slavic, Armenian & Indo-Iranian. I'm not trying to be, but what I posted is somewhat controversial, alike all the theories on "Sicilian-Moor-Arab-African ethnogenetic links". +

[demikede1]

The music is supposedly based on ancient European tribes, but the chants are reminiscent of Turkic & Siberian genres; and oddly, some seem to sound Semitic, or like east Asian & North American Indian. Ligures along with Etruscans are thought to be of Near Eastern or Central Asian origins, but ethnologists suggest the Ligures are very indigenous to Europe (not Indo-Iranian) & may share a relationship with the Basque people of northern Spain & southwest France, or the Georgians in the Caucasus. +

[MrWHipHop]

@arianolumbard giusto

[mattia80bsx]

splendido video!!!!!!!

[hdp26]

Well, ligurians are the base of occidental european genetic pool, it's thought they are the comon in the keltic halotipe.

1'5 million years ago the human being steped on Georgia the eastern Iberia 1'1 million years bc, that same protopaleolithic man is found in the western Iberia actual spain.

Hipothesis point that thru those 3 known human migrations due to glaciations ligurian grandgrandfathers kept safe(or just safer and issolated) in the iberian peninsulae then in warm ages they expanded

[SaxonBrit]

My four Maternal Great-Grandparents were Giuseppe Lucchesi from Bedizzano (MS), Toscana, Maria Cavallini from Livorno (LI), Toscana, Nicola Barella from Bugnara (AQ), Abruzzo, and Incoronata Giammarino from Morra De Sanctis (AV), Campania.

[SaxonBrit]

Very interesting! My Maternal Great-Grandparents were from Toscana, Abruzzo, and Campania. My one Great-Grandfather was from Provincia Di Massa-Carrara, and his surname "Lucchesi" derives ultimately from Ligurian Italic, from the city name "Lucca," which comes from Latin "Lucam" via Ligurian "Luk."