The Insubres or Insubri were a Gaulish or Italic population settled in Insubria, in what is now the Italian region of Lombardy. They were the founders of Mediolanum (Milan). Though culturally Celtic at the time of Roman conquest (at the beginning of the 2nd century BC), they were most likely the result of the fusion of pre-existing Ligurian, Celtic, Etruscan, and Italic population (such as the Golasecca culture) strata with Gaulish tribes who had come from what is now southern France.