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Umbria (/ ˈ ʌ m b r i ə / UM-bree-ə; Italian:) is a region of central Italy. It includes Lake Trasimeno and Marmore Falls , and is crossed by the Tiber . It is the only landlocked region on the Apennine Peninsula .
The Romans first made contact with Umbria in 310 BC and settled Latin colonies there in 299 BC, 268 BC and 241 BC. They had completed their conquest of Umbria by approximately 260 BC. The Via Flaminia linking areas of Umbria was complete by 220 BC. Cities in Umbria also contributed troops to Rome for its many wars.
Pages in category "History of Umbria" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Baglioni family; C.
Gubbio is located in an upland valley in the Apennine Mountains, in the northeastern part of the present-day region of Umbria. This particular part of Umbria is a transitional area, close to both Marche to the east and Tuscany to the west. As a result, Gubbio has historically had strong political and cultural ties to both of those regions.
—Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Historiae, Liber III, LXI It dates back to the beginning of the third century A.D. that the Tabula Peutingeriana testified that the reference route of the Via Flaminia was no longer the western one, from Narnia to Mevania, but the eastern one passing through Terni, contrary to the itinerarium Gaditanum of two centuries earlier, which indicates the former as the ...
According to some Italian scholars, Amelia is the oldest town in Umbria. In the third book of his "Naturalis Historia", Pliny the Elder reports a statement made by Cato according to which the origins of the city were said to date back to the period of a mythical Umbrian king called Ameroë, the son of Atlas (hence the name of Ameria, by which the city was known in the ancient time).
Narni (Latin: Narnia) is an ancient hilltown and comune (municipality) of Umbria, in central Italy, with 19,252 inhabitants (2017). At an altitude of 240 metres (790 ft), it overhangs a narrow gorge of the River Nera in the province of Terni .
Spello (in Antiquity: Hispellum) is an ancient town and comune (township) of Italy, in the province of Perugia in eastern-central Umbria, on the lower southern flank of Monte Subasio. It is 6 km (4 mi) NNW of Foligno and 10 km (6 mi) SSE of Assisi. It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy"). [3]