Editing Barcelonnette (section)

===Origins===
The Barcelonnette region was populated by [[Ligures]] from the 1st millennium BC onwards, and the arrival of the [[Celts]] several centuries later led to the formation of a mixed Celto-Ligurian people, the [[Vesubians]]. [[Polybius]] described the Vesubians as belligerent but nonetheless civilised and mercantile, and [[Julius Caesar]] praised their bravery.<ref>''Vallis Montium : Histoire de la vallée de Barcelonnette'', p.12 and p.15</ref><ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZzsXAAAAYAAJ&dq=%C3%A9subiens&pg=PA31 Recherche sur la géographie ancienne et les antiquités du département des Basses-Alpes]'', p. 30, le col de la Magdeleine étant l'ancien nom du col de Larche, ''Colle della Maddalena'' in Italian.</ref><ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=AncBAAAAQAAJ&dq=%C3%89subiens&pg=PA115 Dictionnaire historique et topographique de la Provence ancienne et moderne]'', page 115</ref> The work ''History of the Gauls'' also places the Vesubians in the Ubaye Valley.<ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=M8oWAAAAQAAJ&dq=ubaye&pg=RA2-PA218 Histoire des Gaules, et des conquêtes des Gaulois depuis leur origine jusqu'à la fondation de la Monarchie française]'', 1754</ref>

Following the [[History of Provence#The Roman Conquest of Provence|Roman conquest of Provence]], Barcelonnette was included in a small province with modern [[Embrun, Hautes-Alpes|Embrun]] as its capital and governed by Albanus Bassalus. This was integrated soon afterwards into [[Gallia Narbonensis]].<ref>''Vallis Montium : Histoire de la vallée de Barcelonnette'', p.16</ref> In 36 AD, Emperor [[Tiberius]] transferred Barcelonnette to the province of the [[Cottian Alps]]. The town was known as ''Rigomagensium'' under the [[Roman Empire]] and was the capital of a civitas (a provincial subdivision),<ref name="Collier15" >Raymond Collier, ''La Haute-Provence monumentale et artistique'', Digne, Imprimerie Louis Jean, 1986, p. 15</ref> though no Roman money has yet been found in the canton of Barcelonnette.<ref name="Collier37" >Raymond Collier, ''La Haute-Provence monumentale et artistique'', p. 37</ref>