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The extent to which an archeological culture is representative of a particular cohesive ancient group of people is open for debate; many of these cultures may be the product of a single ancient Italian tribe or civilization (e.g. Latial culture), while others may have been spread among different groups of ancient Italian peoples and even ...
The most notable among them were Christopher Columbus, who is credited with discovering the New World; [93] John Cabot, the first European to set foot in "New Found Land" and explore parts of the North American continent in 1497; [94] Amerigo Vespucci, who first demonstrated in about 1501 that the New World was not Asia as initially conjectured ...
The Peoples of Ancient Italy. Boston, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. Sabatino Moscati, Così nacque l'Italia: profili di popoli riscoperti, Società editrice internazionale, Torino 1998. Niebuhr, Barthold Georg. (1835). The History of Rome. Philadelphia: Thomas Wardle; Francisco Villar, Gli Indoeuropei e le origini dell'Europa, Bologna, Il Mulino ...
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
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.
Terni (in Latin: Interamna Nahars) was the first important Umbrian center. Its population was called with the name of Umbri Naharti. They were the largest, organized and belligerent tribe of the Umbrians and populated compactly across the basin of Nera River. This people is quoted 8 times in the Iguvine Tablets.
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The history of Italy in the Middle Ages can be roughly defined as the time between the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and the Italian Renaissance. Late antiquity in Italy lingered on into the 7th century under the Ostrogothic Kingdom and the Byzantine Empire under the Justinian dynasty, the Byzantine Papacy until the mid 8th century.