Roman Italy

The Rubicon (; ; ) is a shallow river in northeastern Italy, just south of Cesena and north of Rimini. It was known as Fiumicino until 1933, when it was identified with the ancient river Rubicon, crossed by Julius Caesar in 49 BC. The river flows for around from the Apennine Mountains to the Adriatic Sea through the south of the Emilia-Romagna region, between the towns of Rimini and Cesena.

Italy under ancient Roman rule

thumb|upright=1.3|The Regioni of Latium and [[Campania]] Latium ( , ; ) is the region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome was founded, the capital city of the Roman Empire. The wide (), flat region lends its name to Latin.

thumb|alt=Multi-color map of northern Italy|Map of ancient Lucania according to The Historical Atlas|277x277px thumb|Lucanian chimera, alleged to be used in Lucanian shields Lucania was a historical region of Southern Italy, named after its native Lucani, an Oscan people. It extended from the Tyrrhenian Sea to the Gulf of Taranto. It bordered with Samnium and Campania in the north, Apulia in the east, and Bruttium in the south-west, and was at the tip of the peninsula which is now called Calabria. It comprised almost all the modern region of Basilicata, the southern part of the Province of Sa

thumb|300px|Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy thumb|285px|right|Augustus' Regio V – Picenum, from the 1911 Atlas of William R. Shepherd.

historical event and idiom

region of Augustan Italy

vicariate of the Roman Empire