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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 .
The consolidation of Italy into a single entity occurred during the Roman expansion in the peninsula, when Rome formed a permanent association with most of the local tribes and cities. [7] The strength of the Italian confederacy was a crucial factor in the rise of Rome , starting with the Punic and Macedonian wars between the 3rd and 2nd ...
Roman expansion in Italy from 500 BC to 218 BC through the Latin War (light red), Samnite Wars (pink/orange), Pyrrhic War (beige), and First and Second Punic War (yellow and green). Cisalpine Gaul (238-146 BC) and Alpine valleys (16-7 BC) were later added. The Roman Republic in 500 BC is marked with dark red. Third Samnite War (298–290 BC)
Roman expansion was mostly accomplished under the Republic, ... circuses and theatres built in cities outside Italy are visible as ruins today. [351]
The city, called Colonia Narbo Martius, was founded in 118 B.C. during the early expansion of the Roman Empire, the researchers said. What started as a colony soon grew to a city as it urbanized ...
Rome had all but completely defeated the Samnites, mastered its fellow Latin towns, and greatly reduced Etruscan power in the region. However, the south of Italy was controlled by the Greek colonies of Magna Grecia [72] who had been allied to the Samnites, and continued Roman expansion brought the two into inevitable conflict. [73] [74]
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) Proto-Italics (Proto-Italic speakers)
The Roman people was the body of Roman citizens (Latin: Rōmānī; Ancient Greek: Ῥωμαῖοι Rhōmaîoi) [a] during the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic, and the Roman Empire. This concept underwent considerable changes throughout the long history of the Roman civilisation, as its borders expanded and contracted.