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Salyes (Gr. S???e?: also sallyes, salyi, salluvii), in ancient geography
Geography

Geography is the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth"....
, was a people occupying the plain South of the Druentia (Durance
Durance

The Durance is a river in south-eastern France.Its source is in the south-western Alps, in the ski resort of Montgen?vre near Brian?on. The main tributaries of the Durance are the rivers Bl?one and Verdon River....
) between the Rhône River
Rhône River

The Rhone, or the Rh?ne is one of the major rivers of Europe, originating in Switzerland and running from there through the south-eastern corner of France....
 and the Alps
Alps

The Alps is the name for one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east; through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany; to France in the west....
.

According to Strabo
Strabo

Strabo was a Ancient Greeks history, geography and philosophy....
 the older Greeks
Greeks

The Greeks , also known as Hellenes, are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions, who can also be found in Greek diaspora communities around the world....
 called them Ligyes, and their territory Ligystike. By some authorities they were considered a mixed race of Galli
Gaul

Gaul is the name used for the region of Western Europe comprising part of present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the River Rhine....
 and Ligurians
Ligures

The Ligures were an ancient people who gave their name to Liguria, which once stretched from Northern Italy into southern Gaul. According to Plutarch they called themselves Ambrones which means ?people of the water?....
 (hence Celtoligyes); by others a purely 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 people, who subjugated the Ligures in the Provincia.






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Salyes (Gr. S???e?: also sallyes, salyi, salluvii), in ancient geography
Geography

Geography is the study of the Earth and its lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth"....
, was a people occupying the plain South of the Druentia (Durance
Durance

The Durance is a river in south-eastern France.Its source is in the south-western Alps, in the ski resort of Montgen?vre near Brian?on. The main tributaries of the Durance are the rivers Bl?one and Verdon River....
) between the Rhône River
Rhône River

The Rhone, or the Rh?ne is one of the major rivers of Europe, originating in Switzerland and running from there through the south-eastern corner of France....
 and the Alps
Alps

The Alps is the name for one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east; through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany; to France in the west....
.

According to Strabo
Strabo

Strabo was a Ancient Greeks history, geography and philosophy....
 the older Greeks
Greeks

The Greeks , also known as Hellenes, are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions, who can also be found in Greek diaspora communities around the world....
 called them Ligyes, and their territory Ligystike. By some authorities they were considered a mixed race of Galli
Gaul

Gaul is the name used for the region of Western Europe comprising part of present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the River Rhine....
 and Ligurians
Ligures

The Ligures were an ancient people who gave their name to Liguria, which once stretched from Northern Italy into southern Gaul. According to Plutarch they called themselves Ambrones which means ?people of the water?....
 (hence Celtoligyes); by others a purely 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 people, who subjugated the Ligures in the Provincia. They are said to have been the first transalpine people subdued by the Romans.

In 154 BC. the inhabitants of Massilia, who had been connected with the Romans by ties of friendship since the Second Punic War
Second Punic War

The Second Punic War lasted from 218 BC to 201 BC and involved combatants in the western and eastern Mediterranean. It was the second of three major wars between Carthage and the Roman Republic....
, appealed for aid against the Oxybii
Oxybii

The Oxybii were a Ligures tribe living on the Mediterranean coast of France near Marseilles. The border with the Ligurian Deciates being to the west of Antibes and east of Frejus ....
 and Decietes (or Deciates
Deciates

The Deciates were a Ligures tribe in the first few centuries BC. They lived in the Antibes area of what is now France, west of the river Var River ....
). These people, called by Livy "transalpine Ligurianh", were perhaps two smaller tribes included under the general name of Salyes. They were defeated by the Roman consul Quintus Opimius. In 125-124 hostilities broke out between the Romans
Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of a small agricultural community founded on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 10th century BC....
 and the Salyes from the same cause. The successful operations of Marcus Fulvius Flaccus
Marcus Fulvius Flaccus (consul 125 BC)

Marcus Fulvius Flaccus was a Ancient Rome Roman Senate and an ally of the Gracchi. He became an administrator of the agrarian reform in 130 BC, and as a solution to the problem of land division among the allied cities, proposed Roman citizenship for the allies' citizens, thus introducing a question that vexed Roman politics for many years....
 were continued by Gaius Sextius Calvinus (123-122), who definitely subdued the Salyes, destroyed their chief town, and founded near its ruins the colony of Aquae Sextiae (Aix-en-Provence
Aix-en-Provence

Aix or Aix-en-Provence , to distinguish it from other cities built over hot springs, is a communes of France in southern France, some north of Marseille....
). Part of their territory was handed over to the Massaliots. Their king, Tutomotulus (or Teutomalius), took refuge with the Allobroges
Allobroges

The Allobroges were a warlike Celts tribe in Gaul located between the Rh?ne River and the Lake of Geneva in what later became Savoy, Dauphin?, and Vivarais....
. From this time the Salyes practically disappear from history.

Among other important Roman towns in their territory may be mentioned Tarusco or Tarasco (Tarascon
Tarascon

Tarascon, sometimes referred to as Tarascon-sur-Rh?ne, is a town and Communes of France in the Bouches-du-Rh?ne Departments of France, in the south of France....
), Arelate (Arles
Arles

Arles is a city in the south of France, in the Bouches-du-Rh?ne Departments of France, of which it is a Subprefectures in France, in the former Provinces of France of Provence....
), Glanum
Glanum

Glanum was a Ancient Rome city in Gallia Narbonensis? Provence in southern France? sited on the flanks of the Alpilles, a range of mountains in today's Bouches-du-Rhone d?partment....
 (Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence

Saint-R?my-de-Provence is a Communes of France in the Bouches-du-Rh?ne Departments of France in southern France....
) and Ernaginum (Saint-Gabriel, now part of Tarascon).