Liguria
a district of ancient Italy, the whole territory of Genoa and Nice, and which, according to the division of Augustus, was bounded N. by the Padus rating it from Etruria, S. by the Ligurian Sea (Gulf of Genoa), and W. by the Varus (Var) and the Maritime Gaul. It was inhabited by an ancient people called the Ligures, of whose origin nothing authentic has been relus Caudinus celebrated a triumph over them 236 в. c. The Ligurians, allied 14, which was incorporated with France by a convention concluded at Milan, June solved in 1814, and Genoa was annexed to Sardinia. The inhabitants revolted, solved in 1814, and Genoa was annexed and proclaimed the restoration of the republic, April 3, 1849. The revolt was suppressed, April 11.