Regio V Picenum
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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.
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- Instance of
- region of Augustan Italy
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Italy
- Continent
- Europe
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- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- Commons category
- Regio V Picenum
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- Historical geography
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- History
- Culture
- Languages
- Cities of the ''Regio V''
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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.
Picenum was a region of ancient Italy. The name was assigned by the Romans, who conquered and incorporated it into the Roman Republic. Picenum became Regio V in the Augustan territorial organisation of Roman Italy. It is now in Marche and the northern part of Abruzzo.
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