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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 ...
Latins- centered around the central plain of Italy between the Tiber and the Alban Hills. Romans- centered in the city of Rome. Falisci; The map shows the most important archaeological sites of Sicily related to pre-Hellenic cultures, as well as the possible extent of the cultures of the Elymians, Sicani and Sicels. Sicels [23]
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 ).
Map 1: Indo-European migrations as described in The Horse, the Wheel, and Language by David W. Anthony Map 2: Possible area of origin and migration route of Proto-Italic speaking people towards Italian peninsula Map 3: Ethnicities of today's Italy in 400 BC.
Italy's inhabitants included Roman citizens, communities with Latin Rights, and socii. The period between the end of the 2nd century BC and the 1st century BC was turbulent , beginning with the Servile Wars , continuing with the opposition of aristocratic élite to populist reformers and leading to a Social War in the middle of Italy.
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
The genetic history of Italy includes information around the formation, ethnogenesis, and other DNA-specific information about the inhabitants of Italy. Modern Italians mostly descend from the ancient peoples of Italy, including Indo-European speakers (Romans and other Latins, Falisci, Picentes,Umbrians, Samnites, Oscans, Sicels, Elymians, Messapians and Adriatic Veneti, as well as Magno ...
The French Lumière brothers publicly screen some of the earliest films in the history of cinema in various locations in Italy. The first Italian director is considered to be Vittorio Calcina, a collaborator of the Lumière Brothers, who filmed Pope Leo XIII in 1896, giving birth to the cinema of Italy. [13] 1900: the population is about 32.4 ...