The Gangani (Γαγγανοι) were a people of ancient Ireland who are referred to in Ptolemy's 2nd century Geography as living in the south-west of the island, probably near the mouth of the River Shannon, between the Auteini to the north and the Uellabori to the south.[1][2] There appears to have been a people of the same name in north-west Wales, as Ptolemy calls the Llŷn Peninsula the "promontory of the Gangani" (Γαγγανὤν ἄκρον).[3][4]
- ^ Ptolemy, Geography 2.1
- ^ Philip Freeman, Ireland and the Classical World, University of Texas Press, 2001, pp. 73-74
- ^ T. F. O'Rahilly, Early Irish History and Mythology, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1946, p. 2, 10
- ^ Barry Cunliffe, Iron Age Communities in Britain, Routledge, 2005, p. 206
Ptolemy's Ireland
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Peoples |
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Towns |
Dunon • Eblana • Iuernis • Labiros • Makolikon • Manapia • Nagnata • Raiba • Regia • Regia Etera
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Rivers |
Argita • Auoba • Birgos • Buuinda • Dabrona • Dur • Iernos • Libnios • Logia • Modonnos • Oboka •Rauios •Senos • Uidua • Uinderios
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Promontories |
Isamnion • Northern • Robogdion • Sacron • Southern • Uennicnion
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Islands |
Adros • Ebuda • Epidion • Erimnos • Limnos • Malaios • Mona • Monaoida • Rikina
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