Ilienses

The Ilienses or Iolaes or Ilians or Iolai (Ancient Greek: Ἰολαεῖς or Ἰολάειοι or Ἰόλαοι or Ἰλιεῖς);[1][2][3] later known as Diagesbes (Διαγησβεῖς) or Diagebres (Διαγηβρεῖς)[4][2][3] were an ancient Nuragic people who lived during the Bronze and Iron Ages in central-southern Sardinia, as well as one of the three major groups among which the ancient Sardinians considered themselves divided (along with the Corsi and the Balares).[5][6] After the Sicilian Wars began with the Punic invasion in the sixth century BC, part of them retreated to the mountainous interior of the island, from which they opposed the foreign rule for centuries.

  1. ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ilienses
  2. ^ a b Strabo, Geography, 5.2
  3. ^ a b Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), Iolai
  4. ^ Strabo, Geographica V, 2,7.
  5. ^ Motzo, Bacchisio Raimondo (1933). Iliensi in Enciclopedia Italiana, cited in Treccani
  6. ^ Iliensi, Enciclopedia on line Treccani