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
- Falisci
- Capenates (in Capena and Ager Capenas, Capena land)
- 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 (Latins (Italic tribe))
- Abolani, mentioned by Pliny the Elder as a people who partook in a ceremony atop the Alban Hills. Pliny mentions that they had supposedly disappeared without a trace by his lifetime.
- 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)
- Foreti / Foretii
- Hortenses
- Latinienses / Romans (Romani) (Ancient Romans) (originally in Rome and Ager Romanus or Ager Latinienses, Roman land, later throughout the Roman Empire)
- Roman tribes (originally there were three tribes: Luceres, Ramnes and Tities, later with Roman expansion increased to 35)
- Roman gentes (sing. gens - clan) (originally they were only Roman Latins, but later, with Roman expansion, several clans of other peoples were also included, such as the Sabines, Etruscans and other Italics)
- 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 they are included as an Italic people by many scholars. However other scholars argue that they could have been a transitional people between Celts and Italics, a Celticized Italic people or a Para-Celtic people.
See also
References
Further reading
- Gianna G. Buti e Giacomo Devoto, Preistoria e storia delle regioni d'Italia, Sansoni UniversitÃÂ , 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, Societàeditrice 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.
- Vittore Pisani, Lingue preromane d'Italia. Origini e fortune, 1978.
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