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If the Corsi, dwelling in Corsica and in the northernmost tip of Sardinia , were a subset of the Ligurians [3] and a group of tribes (they probably were an Indo-European people related to the Celts), then they would have been of a different ethnic and linguistic affiliation from the majority of the tribes of Sardinia (although Emidio De Felice ...
Depiction of the Sardus Pater Babai in a Roman coin (59 B.C.). Not much can be gathered from the classical literature about the origins of the Sardinian people. [17] The ethnonym "S(a)rd" may belong to the Pre-Indo-European (or Indo-European [18]) linguistic substratum, and whilst they might have derived from the Iberians, [19] [20] the accounts of the old authors differ greatly in this respect.
During the Roman period, the geographer Ptolemy noted that Sardinia was inhabited by the following tribes, from north to south: the Tibulati and the Corsi, the Coracenses, the Carenses and the Cunusitani, the Salcitani and the Lucuidonenses, the Æsaronenses, the Æchilenenses (also called Cornenses), the Rucensi, the Celsitani and the ...
The Nuragic civilization, [1] [2] also known as the Nuragic culture, formed in the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, Italy in the Bronze Age.According to the traditional theory put forward by Giovanni Lilliu in 1966, it developed after multiple migrations from the West of people related to the Beaker culture who conquered and disrupted the local Copper Age cultures; other scholars instead ...
Ancient tribes of Nuragic Sardinia. Tribes of Sardinia geographic location described by the Romans.. Pausanias in his work Periegesis speculated that the Balares were the descendants of the Iberian and African mercenaries of Carthage, adding that in the language of the Corsi, "Balares" translates to fugitives.
The east Germanic tribe of the Vandals conquered Sardinia in 456. Their rule lasted for 78 years up to 534, when 400 eastern Roman troops led by Cyril, one of the officers of the foederati, retook the island. It is known that the Vandal government continued the forms of the existing Roman Imperial structure.
The Ilienses or Iolaes or Ilians or Iolai (Ancient Greek: Ἰολαεῖς or Ἰολάειοι or Ἰόλαοι or Ἰλιεῖς); [1] [2] [3] later known as Diagesbes (Διαγησβεῖς) or Diagebres (Διαγηβρεῖς) [4] [2] [3] were an ancient Nuragic people who lived during the Bronze and Iron Ages in central-southern Sardinia, as well as one of the three major groups among ...
In 177/176 BC, to quell the rebellion of the Sardinian tribes known as the Balares and the Ilienses, the Senate sent the consul Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus to be in charge of two legions; each was composed of 5,200 common soldiers and 300 knights, with another 1,200 infantrymen and 600 knights among allies and Latins. It is estimated that ...