Picentes
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23 sectionsContents
- History
- Roman Era
- Picentine war
- Social War
- Empire
- Periods
- Phase "Picenum I" (9th century BC)
- Phase "Picenum II" (8th century BC)
- Phase "Picenum III" (7th century BC and part of the 6th, up to 580 BC)
- Phase "Picenum IV" (from 580 to 470 BC)
- Phase "Picenum V" (from 470 BC until the beginning of the 4th century)
- Phase "Picenum VI" (4th and a small part of the 3rd century BC, up to the Battle of Sentinum)
- Myth
- Culture
- Genetics
- Haplogroups
- Language
- Ethnonym
- Prominent Picentes
- Gentes of Picentine origin
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
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
The Picentes or Piceni or Picentini were an ancient Italic people who lived from the 9th to the 3rd century BC in the area between the Foglia and Aterno rivers, bordered to the west by the Apennines and to the east by the Adriatic coast. Their territory, known as Picenum, therefore included all of today's Marche and the northern part of Abruzzo. Recently, a genome-wide archaeogenetic study of individuals from two Picene necropoleis found that all the individuals associated with this culture display genetic continuity with earlier populations.