Italic peoples

historical Italic tribe

thumb|Amiternum, an ancient city founded by the Sabines right|thumb|Map showing the location of the Sabines. The border with Latium to the south was the Aniene river; however, it is possible that Sabines extended to Lake [[Regillus slightly to the south of it near Gabii.]]

peoples who are or were native speakers of an Italic language, and are or were related to one of them

thumb|Samnite soldiers depicted on a tomb frieze in [[Nola. From the 4th century BC|331x331px]] The Samnites () were an ancient Italic people who inhabited Samnium, a region located in the modern inland Abruzzo, Molise, and Campania in south-central Italy. thumb|Italy in 400 BC An Oscan-speaking people, who originated as an offshoot of the Sabines, they formed a confederation consisting of four tribes: the Hirpini, Caudini, Caraceni, and Pentri. Ancient Greek historians considered the Umbri as the ancestors of the Samnites. Their migration was in a southward direction, according to the rite of

right|320px|thumb|Volscian settlements (in red)

thumb|Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy.

thumb|300px|Location of the Aequi (Equi) in central Italy, 5th century BC.

thumb|300px|Approximate distribution of languages in Iron Age#Italy|Iron Age Italy during the sixth century BC, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy

thumb|300px|Map of early Italic and surrounding languages. thumb|250px|Map c. 450 BC thumb|300px|View from the general vicinity of Falerii to Monte Soratte on the southern border.

The Hernici were an Italic tribe of ancient Italy, whose territory was in Latium between the Fucine Lake and the Sacco River (Trerus), bounded by the Volsci on the south, and by the Aequi and the Marsi on the north.

thumb|upright=1.5|The territory of the Aurunci.

thumb|250px|Map showing the territory of the Aurunci.

The Oenotrians or Enotrians were an ancient Italic people who inhabited a territory in Southern Italy from Paestum to southern Calabria. By the sixth century BC, the Oenotrians had been absorbed into other Italic tribes.

thumb|380px|The territory of the Vestini in a 1624 map by Philip Clüver published in Italia Antiqua. thumb|380px|Vestini country, looking inland at Gran Sasso from [[Pescara.]]

The Marrucini were an Italic tribe that occupied a small strip of territory around the ancient Teate (modern Chieti), on the east coast of Abruzzo, Italy, limited by the Aterno and Foro Rivers. Other Marrucinian centers included Ceio (San Valentino in Abruzzo Citeriore), Iterpromium (whose ruins are under the Abbey of San Clemente at Casauria), Civitas Danzica (Rapino), and the port of Aternum (Pescara), shared with the Vestini.

The Paeligni or Peligni were an Italic tribe who lived in the Valle Peligna, in what is now Abruzzo, central Italy.

thumb|right|Map of ancient Samnium The Sidicini (Ancient Greek Σιδικῖνοι) were one of the Italic peoples of ancient Italy. Their territory extended northward from their capital, Teanum Sidicinum (modern day Teano), along the valley of the Liri river up to Fregellae, covering around in total. They were neighbors of the Samnites and Campanians, and allies of the Ausones and Aurunci. Their language was Oscan.

The Praetutii were an ancient Italic tribe of central Italy. They are thought to have lived around Interamnia (or Interamna), which became modern Teramo, and to have given their name to Abruzzo. The ancient accounts, however, are substantially confused, when it comes to more precise location and details.

Sabellians is a collective ethnonym for a group of Italic peoples or tribes inhabiting central and southern Italy at the time of the rise of Rome. The name was first applied by Niebuhr and encompassed the Sabines, Marsi, Marrucini and Vestini. Pliny in one passage says the Samnites were also called Sabelli, and this is confirmed by Strabo. The term is found also in Livy and other Latin writers, as an adjective form for Samnite, though never for the name of the nation; but it is frequently also used, especially by the poets, simply as an equivalent for the adjective Sabine.

ancient tribe living in Italy