Salassi

Also known as Salasses

The Salassi or Salasses were a Gallic or Ligurian tribe dwelling in the upper valley of the Dora Baltea river, near present-day Aosta, Aosta Valley, during the Iron Age and the Roman period.

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The Salassi or Salasses were a Gallic or Ligurian tribe dwelling in the upper valley of the Dora Baltea river, near present-day Aosta, Aosta Valley, during the Iron Age and the Roman period.

== Name == They are mentioned as dià Salassō̃n (διὰ Σαλασσῶν) by Polybius (2nd c. BC) and Strabo (early 1st c. AD), as Salassi by Livy (late 1st c. BC), as Salassos by Pliny (1st c. AD), as Salasíon (Σαλασίον) by Ptolemy (2nd c. AD), as Salassoí (Σαλασσοί) by Appian (2nd c. AD).