Editing Liguria (section)

=== Roman times ===
[[File:Regio IX Liguria.jpg|thumb|Map of [[Roman Italy#Augustan organization|Roman Regio ''IX Liguria'']], between the River [[Var (river)|Var]] and [[Magra]]]]
[[File:Luna Amphitheater1.jpg|thumb|The Roman amphitheatre of [[Luni, Italy|Luni]] (1st century AD)]]

During the first [[Punic War]], the ancient Ligurians were divided, some of them siding with [[Carthage]], others, including the inhabitants of Stalia (later [[Genoa]]), with Rome. Under [[Augustus]], Liguria was designated a [[Augustan regions of Italy|region of Italy]] (''Regio IX Liguria'') stretching from the coast to the banks of the [[Po River]]. The great Roman roads (Aurelia and Julia Augusta on the coast, Postumia and Aemilia Scauri towards the inland) helped strengthen territorial unity and increase communication and trade. Important towns developed on the coast, of which evidence is left in the ruins of [[Albenga]], Ventimiglia and [[Luni, Italy|Luni]]. In 180 B.C., the Romans, in order to dispose of Ligurian rebels in their seeking of the [[Gallic Wars|conquest of Gaul]], they deported 47,000 Liguri [[Apuani]], confining them to the Samnite area between [[Avellino]] and [[Benevento]].{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}