Insubres

The Insubres or Insubri were an ancient Celtic people of Cisalpine Gaul, settled in what is now Lombardy in northern Italy, whose chief town was Mediolanum (modern Milan). Polybius names them as the most powerful of the Gauls of the region. Unlike the peoples that ancient writers derived from the trans-Alpine invasion of the 4th century BC, the Insubres are generally taken for the direct continuation of the older, Celtic-speaking population of the Golasecca culture. Their resistance to Rome ended with the fall of Mediolanum in 222 BC and their final submission in the 190s BC, after which they kept a federated status until they were absorbed into Roman Italy.