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This list of ancient
Italic peoples includes names of
Indo-European peoples speaking
Italic languages or otherwise considered Italic in sources from the late early 1st millennium BC to the early 1st millennium AD.
Ancestors
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. 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
Falisci
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
Acienses
Albans (
Albani ) (
Populi Albenses ) (in
Alba Longa Land, between the modern-day
Lake Albano and
Monte Cavo )
Antemnates (in
Antemnae ) (sometimes regarded as
Sabines )
Bolani /
Bovillani
Bubetani
Cusuetani (originally
Latin tribe that was conquered and assimilated by the
Volsci )
Coriolani , Old /
Old Coriolani (originally
Latin tribe that was conquered and assimilated by the
Volsci )
Ficani (in
Ficana Land)
Latin
Fidenates (originally
Latin tribe that was conquered and assimilated by the
Etruscans , for some centuries Fidenates were
Etruscans - the Fidenates Etruscans, however in the 8th century BC,
Rome , after a war with
Veii and
Fidenae , conquered
Fidenae and established a Roman Latin colony there -
Fidenae Novae , and the Fidenae land was Latinized again)
[3]
Foreti /
Foretii
Hortenses
Latinienses /
Romans (
Romani ) (
Ancient Romans ) (originally in
Rome and
Ager Romanus or
Ager Latinienses ,
Roman land , later throughout the
Roman Empire )
Longulani (originally
Latin tribe that was conquered and assimilated by the
Volsci )
Macrales
Manates
Munienses
Mutucumenses
Numinienses
Octulani
Olliculani
Pedani
Polluscini (originally
Latin tribe that was conquered and assimilated by the
Volsci )
Querquetulani
Sicani, Latium (
Latium
Sicani ) (not to be confused with the
Sicily 's
Sicani )
Sisolenses
Tolerienses (in
Toleria or
Tolerium Land)
Tutienses
Velienses
Venetulani , Latium /
Latium
Venetulani (may have been an originally
Venetian tribe that was Latinized and assimilated)
Vimitellarii
Vitellenses
Opici
Other possible Italic peoples
Usually[
when? ] they are included as an Italic people by many[
quantify ] scholars.[
who? ] However other scholars[
who? ] argue[
where? ] that they could have been a transitional people between
Celts and
Italics , a
Celticized
Italic people or a Para-Celtic people.
See also
References
^ Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1845).
The History of Rome, Volume 1 , p. 154.
^ Gary D. Farney, Guy Bradley, eds. (2017).
The Peoples of Ancient Italy , P. 478.
^ Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1845).
The History of Rome, Volume 1 , p. 154.
^ Š. Batović, Liburnska kultura, Matica Hrvatska i Arheološki muzej Zadar, Zadar, 2005, UDK: 904 (398 Liburnija),
ISBN
953-6419-50-5 , pages 64-66
Further reading
Gianna G. Buti e
Giacomo Devoto , Preistoria e storia delle regioni d'Italia , Sansoni Università, 1974
Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli , Italia, omnium terrarum alumna , Officine grafiche Garzanti Milano, Garzanti-Schewiller, 1990
Giacomo Devoto , Gli antichi Italici, 2a ed. Firenze, Vallecchi, 1951.
Gary D. Farney, Guy Bradley (edits.) (2018). 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, 1997.
ISBN
88-15-05708-0
Vittore Pisani , Lingue preromane d'Italia. Origini e fortune, 1978.
External links
[1] - Source texts of ancient Greek and Roman authors
[2] - Strabo's work The Geography (
Geographica ). Books 5 and 6 are about Italy (each region has a chapter).