Taurini

The Taurini were a Ligurian or Celto-Ligurian tribe dwelling in the upper valley of the river Po, around present-day Turin, during the Iron Age and the Roman period.

They are mentioned as Taurĩnoí (Ταυρῖνοί) by Polybius (2nd c. BC),[1] Taurini by Livy (late 1st c. BC),[2] Taurinoí (Ταυρινοί) by Strabo (early 1st c. AD),[3] Taurinorum by Pliny (1st c. AD),[4] and as Taurínōn (Ταυρίνων; var.

[9] Their territory was located east of the Iemerii, west of the Libicii and Iadatini.

[10] Their original capital, Taurasia, was destroyed by the Carthaginians after they opposed in vain Hannibal's march into Italy in 218 BC.

It was refounded by the Romans after 25 BC as Colonia Augusta Taurinorum (modern Turin), at the confluence of the Dora and Po.