Salassi
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The Salassi or Salasses were a Gallic or Ligurian tribe dwelling in the upper valley of the Dora Baltea river, around present-day Aosta (Aosta Valley), during the Iron Age and the Roman period. They controlled the valley routes leading to the Great and Little St Bernard Passes and the gold deposits of the Dora Baltea basin. After resisting Roman expansion for more than a century, they were destroyed as a people in 25 BC by the army of Augustus, and their territory was given over to the new colony of Augusta Praetoria (modern Aoste).
The Salassi or Salasses were a Gallic or Ligurian tribe dwelling in the upper valley of the Dora Baltea river, around present-day Aosta (Aosta Valley), during the Iron Age and the Roman period. They controlled the valley routes leading to the Great and Little St Bernard Passes and the gold deposits of the Dora Baltea basin. After resisting Roman expansion for more than a century, they were destroyed as a people in 25 BC by the army of Augustus, and their territory was given over to the new colony of Augusta Praetoria (modern Aoste). ==Notes== ==References== ===Bibliography=== ==Further reading==
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