Ligauni

The Ligauni were a Celto-Ligurian tribe dwelling near the Mediterranean coast during the Iron Age and the Roman period.

[1][2] A (colonia) in Liga in also attested in the Early Middle Ages (814 AD).

It has been derived from the root līg- ('to strike'), with Ligauni as 'the beating ones',[4] or from liga- ('mud, sediment, silt').

[2] According to Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, such linguistically Celtic tribal names suggest that a Celto-Ligurian dialect played an important role among the languages spoken in ancient Ligury.

[4] Their territory was located east of the Deciates, west of the Verucini, south of the Suetrii, and north of the Oxybii.