The Corpicenses were an ancient people of
Sardinia
Sardinia ( ; ; ) is the Mediterranean islands#By area, second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the Regions of Italy, twenty regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia an ...
, noted by
Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (; , ; ; – 160s/170s AD) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine science, Byzant ...
(III, 3). They dwelt south of the
Rucensi The Rucensi were an ancient people of Sardinia, noted by Ptolemy (III, 3). They dwelt south of the Æchilenenses
The Æchilenenses also called the Cornenses and Æchilenses were an ancient people of Sardinia, noted by Ptolemy
Claudius Ptol ...
and north of the
Scapitani
The Scapitani were an ancient people of Sardinia, noted by Ptolemy (III, 3). They dwelt south of the Celsitani and the Corpicenses and north of the Neapolitani The Neapolitani were an ancient people of Sardinia, noted by Ptolemy (III, 3). They ...
and the
Siculensi The Siculensi were an ancient people of Sardinia, noted by Ptolemy (III, 3). They dwelt south of the Celsitani and the Corpicenses and north of the Neapolitani The Neapolitani were an ancient people of Sardinia, noted by Ptolemy (III, 3). They d ...
.
References
Ptolemy's Geography online
Ancient peoples of Sardinia
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