Bagienni

The Bagienni were an ancient Ligurian people of north-western Italy mentioned in Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia. They were based in various areas of what is today south-western Piedmont, but particularly in the upper part of the Tanaro valley. They were also present in the Val Trebbia in today's Emilia Romagna. Their capital, known to the Ancient Romans as Augusta Bagiennorum, was located in the frazione Roncaglia of Bene Vagienna in the modern Province of Cuneo.
The Bagienni were conquered by the Romans around the middle of the second century BC, their territories becoming part of Roman Italy.

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The manuscript tradition of Pliny's text is inconsistent. The 9th-century Codex Leidensis Vossianus F 4 reads uagienni, while other manuscripts have bagiensi. The form uagienni also appears in Ligurum ''Vagiennorum from the same codex, likely influenced by the preceding in Ligurum, whereas other witnesses read gabi-. In 3.24.135, however, Vagienni is transmitted by all manuscripts and is emended by editors to Bagienni''.