List of ancient Italic peoples

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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.

Background

The first Italic tribes to enter the Italian peninsula, moved across the eastern Alpine passes into the plain of the Po River about 1800 BC . Later they crossed the Apennines and eventually occupied the region of Latium, which included Rome. Before 1000 BC related tribes followed, which later divided into various groups and gradually moved to central and southern Italy.^[1]

List

Possible area of origin and migration route of Proto-Italic people towards Italian peninsula.

Ethnicities of today's Italy in 400 BC. The Italic tribes lived at this point in the south-central part of the Italian peninsula.

Approximate distribution of languages in Iron Age Italy during the sixth century BC.

The linguistic and peoples' landscape of Central Italy at the beginning of Roman expansion

• Latino-Faliscans:
  • Falisci
    • Capenates (in Capena and Ager Capenas, Capena land)
    • Falerii (in Falerii and Ager Faliscus)
  • Latins (Latini)
    • Albani (in Alba Longa land)
    • Antemnates (in Antemnae) (sometimes regarded as Sabines)
    • Caeninenses (in Caenina)
    • Camerini (in Cameria land)
    • Crustumini (in Crustumerium land)
    • Lanivii (in Lanivium land)
    • Praenestini (in Praeneste land)
    • Romans (Romani) (originally in Rome and Ager Romanus, 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)
    • Satrici (in Satricum land, originally it was a Latin land before being taken by the Volsci)
  • Opici
• Osco-Umbrians, also called Sabellians:
  • Umbrians
    • Aequi
    • Hernici
    • Marsi
    • Sabines (Sabini)
    • South Picentes/South Picenes (Pupeneis)
    • Praetutii (in Ager Praetutianus, their name gave origin to the name of Abruzzo region)
    • Umbri
    • Volsci
  • Oscans
    • Northern Oscans
      • Marrucini
      • Paeligni
      • Vestini
    • Southern Oscans
      • Osci
        • Aurunci
        • Ausones
        • Campanians (Campani)
        • Sidicini
      • Samnitics
        • Lucani
          • Bruttii
        • Samnites-Frentani
          • Frentani
          • Samnites (Safineis)
            • Caraceni
            • Caudini
            • Hirpini
            • Pentri
• Others
  • Elymi?
  • Oenotrians? (Oenotri)
    • Itali
    • Morgetes?
    • Sicels (Siculi)
  • Rutuli?
  • Sicani?
• Veneti? (Transitional people between Celts and Italics? Celticized Italic people? Para-Celtic people?)
  • Carni
  • Catali
  • Catari
  • Histri
  • Liburnians (Liburni)^[2]
    • Caulici
    • Enchealae
    • Hymanes
    • Hythmitae
    • Ismeni
    • Lopsi
    • Mentores
    • Peucetias
    • Syopii
  • Secusses
  • Subocrini
  • Veneti Proper
  • Venetulani

See also

• Prehistoric Italy
• Italic peoples
• List of Roman tribes
• List of Roman gentes
• List of ancient peoples of Italy
• List of ancient Greek tribes

References

Further reading

• Gianna G. Buti e Giacomo Devoto, Preistoria e storia delle regioni d'Italia, Sansoni Università, 1974
• Giacomo Devoto, Gli antichi Italici, 2a ed. Firenze, Vallecchi, 1951.
• Sabatino Moscati, Così nacque l'Italia: profili di popoli riscoperti, Società editrice internazionale, Torino 1998.
• Vittore Pisani, Lingue preromane d'Italia. Origini e fortune, 1978.
• Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli, Italia, omnium terrarum alumna, Officine grafiche Garzanti Milano, Garzanti-Schewiller, 1990
• Francisco Villar, Gli Indoeuropei e le origini dell'Europa, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1997. ISBN 88-15-05708-0

External links

• - Source texts of ancient Greek and Roman authors

• - Strabo's work The Geography (Geographica). Books 5 and 6 are about Italy (each region has a chapter).