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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Ligurians

Luigi Speranza

Ligurians in the World Association

We are Liguri, or commonly thought of as Genovesi.

Our wish is to provide you with interesting items and tidbits about our extended Genovese family, people who at one time were part of La Repubblica di Genova and now are in or from the region of Liguria, Il Basso Piemonte, parts of the provinces of Pavia, Piacenza and Parma.

THE SWAN, il cigno, the symbol of the Liguri Nel Mondo, has always been linked to Liguria.

A fable from Greek Mythology tells the story of Cygnus, the King of the Ligurians who, while grieving over the death of his friend, Phaeton, was turned into a swan, Cygnus.

The unlucky king in his new form became the emblem of the region over which he reigned, Liguria.

The Encyclopedia Britannica has the following under Ligurian:

Latin Ligus, or Ligur, plural Ligures.

Any member of a collection of ancient peoples who inhabited the northwester Mediterranean coast from the mouth of the Ebro River in Spain to the mouth of the Arno River in the 1st millennium B.C.

Wikipedia encyclopedia states:

The Ligures were ancient people who gave their name to Liguria, which once stretched from Northern Italy into Southern Gaul. The Ligures inhabited what now corresponds to Liguria, Northern Tuscany, Piedmont, part of Emilia Romagna, part of Lombardy and parts of southeastern France.

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