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The Insubres or Insubri were a population settled in Insubria
Insubria

Insubria is a historical-geographical region which corresponds to the area inhabited in the past by the Insubres, a Celtic people which dwelt in the 4th-5th century B.C....
, in what is now Lombardy
Lombardy

Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region....
. They were the founders of Milan
Milan

Milan is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the Regions of Italy capital of Lombardy....
 (Mediolanum). Though Celt
Celt

Celts , is a modern term used to describe any of the European peoples who spoke, or speak, a Celtic languages. The term is also used in a wider sense to describe the Modern Celts of those peoples, notably those who participate in a Celtic culture....
ic at the time of Roman
Roman Republic

The Roman Republic was the phase of the Ancient Rome characterized by a republican form of government; a period which began with the overthrow of the Roman Roman Kingdom, c....
 conquest, they were most likely the result of the fusion of pre-existing Ligurian
Ligurian

Ligurian may mean one of several things:* Pertaining to the ancient Ligures* Pertaining to modern Liguria* The Romance Ligurian language * The extinct Ligurian language spoken by the ancient Ligures...
 and Italic
Ancient Italic peoples

Ancient peoples of Italy are all those peoples that lived in Italy before the Ancient Rome. Not all of these various peoples are linguistically or ethnicity closely related....
 population strata with Gaulish tribes who had come from what is now southern France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
.

Together with the Boii
Boii

Boii is the Ancient Rome name of an ancient Celtic tribes, attested at various times in Transalpine Gaul and Cisalpine Gaul , as well as in Pannonia , Bohemia, Moravia and western Slovakia....
, Lingones
Lingones

Lingones were a Celtic tribe that originally lived in Gaul in the area of the headwaters of the Seine and Marne rivers. Some of the Lingones migrated across the Alps and settled near the mouth of the Po River in Cisalpine Gaul of northern Italy around 400 BCE....
, Taurini
Taurini

The Taurini were an ancient Celt-Ligures people, who occupied the upper valley of the river Po River, in the centre of modern Piedmont. In 218 BC, they were attacked by Hannibal since his allies were the Insubres....
, Gaesatae
Gaesatae

The Gaesatae were a group of Gaulish warriors who lived in the Alps near the river Rh?ne River and fought against the Roman Republic in the Battle of Telamon of 224 BC....
 and other Gaulish groups, the Insubres were defeated in 224
224 BC

Events...
 or 225 BC by the Roman army led by consul Lucius Aemilius Papus
Lucius Aemilius Papus

Lucius Aemilius Papus , a member of the gens Aemilius of the branch cognominated Papus , was a Roman general and statesman who led the Romans to victory over the Gauls in the Battle of Telamon in 225 BC....
 at the Battle of Telamon
Battle of Telamon

The Battle of Telamon was fought between the Roman Republic and an alliance of Gauls in 225 BC. The Romans, led by the consuls Gaius Atilius Regulus and Lucius Aemilius Papus, defeated the Gauls, thus extending their influence over northern Italy....
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The Insubres or Insubri were a population settled in Insubria
Insubria

Insubria is a historical-geographical region which corresponds to the area inhabited in the past by the Insubres, a Celtic people which dwelt in the 4th-5th century B.C....
, in what is now Lombardy
Lombardy

Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region....
. They were the founders of Milan
Milan

Milan is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the Regions of Italy capital of Lombardy....
 (Mediolanum). Though Celt
Celt

Celts , is a modern term used to describe any of the European peoples who spoke, or speak, a Celtic languages. The term is also used in a wider sense to describe the Modern Celts of those peoples, notably those who participate in a Celtic culture....
ic at the time of Roman
Roman Republic

The Roman Republic was the phase of the Ancient Rome characterized by a republican form of government; a period which began with the overthrow of the Roman Roman Kingdom, c....
 conquest, they were most likely the result of the fusion of pre-existing Ligurian
Ligurian

Ligurian may mean one of several things:* Pertaining to the ancient Ligures* Pertaining to modern Liguria* The Romance Ligurian language * The extinct Ligurian language spoken by the ancient Ligures...
 and Italic
Ancient Italic peoples

Ancient peoples of Italy are all those peoples that lived in Italy before the Ancient Rome. Not all of these various peoples are linguistically or ethnicity closely related....
 population strata with Gaulish tribes who had come from what is now southern France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
.

Together with the Boii
Boii

Boii is the Ancient Rome name of an ancient Celtic tribes, attested at various times in Transalpine Gaul and Cisalpine Gaul , as well as in Pannonia , Bohemia, Moravia and western Slovakia....
, Lingones
Lingones

Lingones were a Celtic tribe that originally lived in Gaul in the area of the headwaters of the Seine and Marne rivers. Some of the Lingones migrated across the Alps and settled near the mouth of the Po River in Cisalpine Gaul of northern Italy around 400 BCE....
, Taurini
Taurini

The Taurini were an ancient Celt-Ligures people, who occupied the upper valley of the river Po River, in the centre of modern Piedmont. In 218 BC, they were attacked by Hannibal since his allies were the Insubres....
, Gaesatae
Gaesatae

The Gaesatae were a group of Gaulish warriors who lived in the Alps near the river Rh?ne River and fought against the Roman Republic in the Battle of Telamon of 224 BC....
 and other Gaulish groups, the Insubres were defeated in 224
224 BC

Events...
 or 225 BC by the Roman army led by consul Lucius Aemilius Papus
Lucius Aemilius Papus

Lucius Aemilius Papus , a member of the gens Aemilius of the branch cognominated Papus , was a Roman general and statesman who led the Romans to victory over the Gauls in the Battle of Telamon in 225 BC....
 at the Battle of Telamon
Battle of Telamon

The Battle of Telamon was fought between the Roman Republic and an alliance of Gauls in 225 BC. The Romans, led by the consuls Gaius Atilius Regulus and Lucius Aemilius Papus, defeated the Gauls, thus extending their influence over northern Italy....
. Two years later the Romans, backed by their Gaulish allies the Cenomani
Cenomani (Cisalpine Gaul)

The Cenomani , was an ancient tribe of the Cisalpine Gauls, who occupied the tract north of the Padus , between the Insubres on the west and the Veneti on the east....
, reduced the only fortified place of the Insubres at Acerrae
Acerrae (Cisalpine Gaul)

Acerrae was ?a city of Cisalpine Gaul, in the territory of the Insubres. Polybius describes it merely as situated between the Alps and the Po River; and his words are copied by Stephanus of Byzantium: but Strabo tells us that it was near Cremona: and the Tabula peutingeriana places it on the road from that city to Laus Pompeia , at a distance...
, and defeated them again at the Battle of Clastidium
Battle of Clastidium

The Battle of Clastidium was fought in 222 BC between a Roman Republican army led by the Roman consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus and the Insubres led by Viridomarus....
. After the defeat of the Gaesatae, they were compelled to accept the Roman occupation of Milan in 221
221 BC

Events...
 and forcible alliance with Rome, while the victors annexed much of their territory.

During the invasion of Hannibal of 218
218 BC

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-217 BC, the Insubres rebelled in support of the Carthaginians. They supported the Carthaginians again in 200 BC, this time under Hamilcar
Hamilcar

Hamilcar was a common name in the Punic culture. There are several different transcriptions into Greek and Roman scripts. The ruling families of ancient Carthage often named their members with the traditional name Hamilcar....
. After several other clashes, they definitively allied with Rome in 194
194 BC

Events...
, maintaining some autonomy for their capital. In 89 BC they obtained Latin citizenship and, in 49 BC, Roman citizenship.

Romanization of the Insubres was probably quick, also due to the reported similarities of the Celtic
Celtic languages

The Celtic languages are descended from Proto-Celtic, or "Common Celtic", a branch of the greater Indo-European languages language family. The term "Celtic" was used to describe this language group by Edward Lhuyd in 1707, having much earlier been used by Greek and Roman writers to describe tribes in central Gaul....
 and Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 languages; in a short span of time after the Roman conquest several literary figures emerged, like that of Caecilius Statius
Caecilius Statius

Caecilius Statius, or Statius Caecilius Born 220 BC Died 168 or 166 BC was a Roman comic .A contemporary and intimate friend of Ennius, he was born in the territory of the Insubrian Gauls, and was probably taken as a prisoner to Rome , during the great Gallic war....
.

Insubria
Insubria

Insubria is a historical-geographical region which corresponds to the area inhabited in the past by the Insubres, a Celtic people which dwelt in the 4th-5th century B.C....
 and Insubric language are named after the Insubres.