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This list of ancient peoples living in Italy summarises the many different Italian populations that existed in antiquity. Among them, the Romans succeeded in Romanizing the entire Italian peninsula following the Roman expansion in Italy , which provides the time-window in which the names of the remaining ancient Italian peoples first appear in ...
The Roman expansion in Italy covers a series of conflicts in which Rome grew from being a small Italian city-state to be the ruler of the Italian region. Roman tradition attributes to the Roman kings the first war against the Sabines and the first conquests around the Alban Hills and down to the coast of Latium .
Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy. The Latins (Latin: Latinus (m.), Latina (f.), Latini (m. pl.)), sometimes known as the Latials [1] or Latians, were an Italic tribe that included the early inhabitants of the city of Rome (see Roman people).
As provinces were being established throughout the Mediterranean, Roman Italy maintained a special status which made it Domina Provinciarum ("ruler of the provinces"), [69] [70] [71] and – especially in relation to the first centuries of imperial stability – Rectrix Mundi ("governor of the world") [72] [73] and Omnium Terrarum Parens ...
Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy. The Umbri were an Italic people of ancient Italy. [1] A region called Umbria still exists and is now occupied by Italian speakers. It is somewhat smaller than the ancient Umbria.
Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion in Italy. The Roman Empire at its greatest extent, 117 AD The ancient peoples of Italy are broadly referred to in historiography as Italic peoples , although in modern linguistics this term is used to define only the speakers of the Italic languages , namely the Latino ...
Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy.Ligures are located in the upper left corner of the map (green). The Ligures or Ligurians were an ancient people after whom Liguria, a region of present-day north-western Italy, is named. [1]
According to Strabo's Geographica, before the expansion of the Roman Republic, the name was used by Greeks to indicate the land between the strait of Messina and the line connecting the gulf of Salerno and gulf of Taranto (corresponding roughly to the current region of Calabria); later the term was extended by Romans to include the Italian ...