Salasser
The Salasser (Salassi) were an Alpine people in what is now north-west Italy. They were either Celts or Celtized Ligurians and inhabited the valley of the Duria (Dora Baltea). There were rich gold pits and gold panning operations. After initial difficulties, the Roman consul Appius Claudius Pulcher defeated in 143 BC. The Salasser. 100 BC The Roman colony Eporedia (today Ivrea ) was founded in their area . Emperor Augustus sent in 25 BC Chr. Aulus Terentius Varro Murena against long been rebellious against Roman rule Salassians. Varro Murena annihilated the whole people - 36,000 people, 8,000 of them capable of weapons - largely by transplanting the survivors partly to distant countries and partly by selling them into slavery . The Alpine passes leading from southwest Gaul to Italy were now secured. Later Augustus founded the Roman colony Augusta Praetoria (now Aosta) on the site of Varro Murena's main camp during the Salass War .
literature
- Marcel Le Glay : Salassi. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 4, Stuttgart 1972, column 1507.
Remarks
- ↑ Titus Livius , periochae 60.
- ↑ Strabon 4, 180.
- ↑ Livy 21:38; Strabo 4, 205.
- ↑ Orosius 5, 4, 7; Iulius Obsequens 21; see. Cassius Dio , fragment 74, 1.
- ↑ Velleius Paterculus 1:15 ; Pliny , Naturalis historia 3, 123, Ptolemy 3, 1, 34.
- ↑ Strabon 4, 205; Cassius Dio 53, 25, 2-4.
- ^ Strabo 4, 205.