Apuani

The Apuani or Ligures Apuani were a Ligurian people who in the Iron Age and the Roman period inhabited the mountainous country of north-western Tuscany and the lower valley of the Magra river, around the Apuan Alps. They are known mainly for their part in the wars between Rome and the Ligurians of the early 2nd century BC, in the course of which the Roman Republic removed some 40,000 of them to Samnium in 180 BC and a further 7,000 in 179 BC. Resistance among the south-eastern Ligurians was not finally broken until 155 BC.