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The Ligures or Ligurians were an ancient people of the north-western Mediterranean, centred on north-western Italy and extending along the neighbouring coast of south-eastern Gaul. Their name was amon
Puvis de Chavannes, Marseille colonie grecque (1867).
The Polcevera Tablet, dated to 117 BC
The Tropaeum Alpium at La Turbie, whose inscription lists the Alpine peoples, several of them reckoned Ligurian, subdued under Augustus
Horned figures (corniformes) among the Bronze Age rock carvings of Mont Bégo in the Maritime Alps, older than the historical Ligures
Genoa
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Genoa is the sixth-largest city in Italy and the capital of the Italian region of Liguria. As of 2025, 565,301 people live within the city's administrative limits. While its metropolitan city has 818,
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…Iron Age, under Etruscan and Greek stimulus. From the 7th century BC, contact with the Etruscans and Greeks, focused on the trading post (emporium) of Genoa, drew them into Mediterranean trade and offered some Ligures an outlet in mercenary service. The Ligurian economy was a poor one, resting on herding…
Genova panorama centro storico da villetta Di Negro
Piazza de Ferrari, Genoa
Genoa Cathedral Western facade
Palazzo San Georgio Genova W