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<div>{{Short description|Celto-Ligurian tribe}}<br />
[[File:Gallia Cisalpina-en.svg|thumb|282x282px|Peoples of [[Cisalpine Gaul]] 391-192 BC.]]<br />
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The '''Taurini''' were a [[Ligures|Ligurian]] or [[Celto-Ligurian]] tribe dwelling in the upper valley of the river [[Po River|Po]], around present-day [[Turin]], during the [[Iron Age Europe|Iron Age]] and the [[Roman period]].<br />
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== Name ==<br />
They are mentioned as ''Taurĩnoí'' (Ταυρῖνοί) by [[Polybius]] (2nd c. BC),<ref>[[Polybius]]. ''Historíai,'' 3:60:8.</ref> ''Taurini'' by [[Livy]] (late 1st c. BC),<ref>[[Livy]]. ''Ab Urbe Condita Libri'', 5:34:8; 21:38:5.</ref> ''Taurinoí'' (Ταυρινοί) by [[Strabo]] (early 1st c. AD),<ref>[[Strabo]]. ''Geōgraphiká'', 4:6:6; 4:6:12.</ref> ''Taurinorum'' by [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]] (1st c. AD),<ref>[[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]]. ''Naturalis Historia'', 3:123.</ref> and as ''Taurínōn'' (Ταυρίνων; var. Ταυρικῶν, Ταυρινῶν) by [[Ptolemy]] (2nd c. AD).<ref>[[Ptolemy]]. ''Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis'', 3:1:31.</ref><ref name=":0">{{Harvnb|Falileyev|2010}}, s.v. ''Taurini''.</ref><br />
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The ethnic name ''Taurini'' can be translated as 'the tribe of the bull'.{{Sfn|de Bernardo Stempel|2006|p=46}} It is either an older form of the [[Metathesis (linguistics)|metathesized]] Celtic noun ''taruos'' ('bull'), or a non-Celtic [[Ligurian (ancient language)|Ligurian]] form.{{sfn|Delamarre|2003|p=291}}<ref name=":0" /><br />
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== Geography ==<br />
The Taurini lived between the [[Dora Riparia]] and the upper [[Po (river)|Po]] river and the lower Dandrune river.{{Sfn|Sartori|2006}} Their territory was located east of the [[Iemerii]], west of the [[Libicii]] and [[Iadatini]].<ref>{{harvnb|Talbert|2000}}, Map 39: Mediolanum.</ref><br />
[[File:Torino - Porta Palatina.jpg|thumb|231x231px|Porta Palatina in Augusta Taurinorum (Turin).]]<br />
Their original capital, Taurasia, was destroyed by the Carthaginians after they opposed in vain [[Hannibal's crossing of the Alps|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. The settlement was hit by a fire in 69 AD.{{Sfn|Sartori|2006}}{{Sfn|Salmon|Potter|2015}}<br />
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==History==<br />
They were involved in Rome's wars against the Celts at the end of the 4th century BC.{{Sfn|Sartori|2006}}<br />
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In 218 BC, they were attacked by [[Hannibal]], who had allied with their long-standing enemies, the [[Insubres]]. Their chief town was captured by Hannibal's forces after a three-day siege.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}<br />
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== Culture ==<br />
The ethnic identity of the Taurini is unclear. They have been variously described as Celts, Ligurians, or more likely, Celticized Ligurians.{{Sfn|Sartori|2006}}{{Sfn|Salmon|Potter|2015}}<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[List of ancient peoples of Italy]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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===Bibliography===<br />
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*{{Cite journal|last=de Bernardo Stempel|first=Patrizia|year=2006|title=From Ligury to Spain: Unaccented *yo > (y)e in Narbonensic votives ('gaulish' DEKANTEM), Hispanic coins ('iberian' -(sk)en) and some theonyms|journal=Palaeohispanica|volume=6|pages=45–58|issn=1578-5386|author-link=Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel}}<br />
*{{Cite book|last=Delamarre|first=Xavier|title=Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise: Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental|year=2003|publisher=Errance|isbn=9782877723695|author-link=Xavier Delamarre}}<br />
*{{Cite book|last=Falileyev|first=Alexander|title=Dictionary of Continental Celtic Place-names: A Celtic Companion to the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World|publisher=CMCS|year=2010|isbn=978-0955718236}}<br />
*{{Cite journal|last1=Salmon|first1=Edward Togo|last2=Potter|first2=T. W.|year=2015|title=Augusta Taurinorum|journal=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Classics|doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.972|isbn=978-0-19-938113-5}}<br />
*{{Cite journal|last=Sartori|first=Antonio|date=2006|title=Taurini|journal=Brill's New Pauly|doi=10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e1201630}}<br />
*{{Cite book|last=Talbert|first=Richard J. A.|title=Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=2000|isbn=978-0691031699|author-link=Richard Talbert}}<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* {{EB1911|wstitle=Taurini|volume=26|page=455}}<br />
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