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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 Italic tribes lived at this point in the south-central part of the Italian peninsula. Map 4: Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy Map 5: The linguistic and peoples landscape of Central Italy at the beginning of Roman expansion. Proto-Indo-Europeans (Proto-Indo-European speakers)
The European country of Italy has been inhabited by humans since at least 850,000 years ago. Since classical antiquity, ancient Etruscans, various Italic peoples (such as the Latins, Samnites, and Umbri), Celts, Magna Graecia colonists, and other ancient peoples have inhabited the Italian Peninsula.
In the early first century BC, several Italic tribes, in particular the Marsi and the Samnites, rebelled against Roman rule. This conflict is called the Social War. After Roman victory was secured, all peoples in Italy, except for the Celts of the Po Valley, were granted Roman citizenship. [1]
Latin-speakers called the Sabines' original territory, straddling the modern regions of Lazio, Umbria, and Abruzzo, Sabinum. To this day, it bears the ancient tribe's name in the Italian form of Sabina. Within the modern region of Lazio (or Latium), Sabina constitutes a sub-region, situated north-east of Rome, around Rieti.
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A history of earliest Italy By Massimo Pallottino, 15 April 1991, Page 118 ISBN 0-472-10097-1; The Cambridge ancient history By John Boardman Page 709 ISBN 0-521-85073-8; Rome and the Western Greeks, 350 BC-AD 200 Page 103 ISBN 0-415-05022-7; Gender and ethnicity in ancient Italy By Tim Cornell, Kathryn Lomas Page 40 ISBN 1-873415-14-1
Other peoples living in northern Italy included the Ligurians (an Indo-European people who lived in what is now Liguria, southern Piedmont and the southern French coast), the Lepontii, Insubres, Orobii and other Celtic tribes in Piedmont and Lombardy, and the Veneti of north-eastern Italy. In the peninsula, alongside the Etruscans, lived ...