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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 ...
Italy was the birthplace and centre of the ancient Roman civilisation. [3][4] Rome was founded as a kingdom in 753 BC and became a republic in 509 BC. The Roman Republic then unified Italy forming a confederation of the Italic peoples and rose to dominate Western Europe, Northern Africa, and the Near East.
Falerii (in Falerii and Ager Faliscus) Sardinia Falisci (in and around Peronia, northeastern Sardinia) Aborigines (mythology) (Casci Latini) - Latium Sicels. Prisci Latini (Old Latins) (according to tradition and legend they were formed by the merger of Aborigines and Latium Sicels) Latini [1][2] (Latins (Italic tribe)) Abolani. Aesulani.
Italian names, with their fixed nome and cognome structure, have little to do with the ancient Roman naming conventions, which used a tripartite system of given name, gentile name, and hereditary or personal name (or names). The Italian nome is not analogous to the ancient Roman nomen; the Italian nome is the given name (distinct between ...
All the other Italian states remained independent, with the most powerful being the Venetian Republic, the Medici's Duchy of Tuscany, the Savoyard state, the Republic of Genoa, and the Papal States. The Gonzaga in Mantua, the Este in Modena and Ferrara and the Farnese in Parma and Piacenza continued to be important dynasties.
Februus is the Italian God of purification who lives in the underworld. Fortuna is the Goddess of fate and fortune and also bringer of fertility. Jana is the Goddess of the Moon, said to have 2 faces. One faces the past, and the other faces the future. Jove is the Sky God.
Boccanegra (5 P) House of Bonaparte (15 C, 94 P) Boncompagni (7 P) House of Boniface (9 P) House of Borghese (3 C, 20 P) House of Borgia (4 C, 64 P) House of Borromeo (18 P) Bourbon del Monte family (2 P) House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (8 C, 29 P)
The concept of Italic peoples is widely used in linguistics and historiography of ancient Italy. In a strict sense, commonly used in linguistics, it refers to the Osco-Umbrians and Latino-Faliscans, speakers of the Italic languages, a subgroup of the Indo-European language family. In a broader sense, commonly used in historiography, all the ...