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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.

Ancestors

• Proto-Indo-Europeans (Proto-Indo-European speakers)
  • Proto-Italics (Proto-Italic speakers)

Latino-Faliscans

• Falisci
  • Capenates (in Capena and Ager Capenas, Capena land)
  • Falerii (in Falerii and Ager Faliscus)
  • Sardinia Falisci (in and around Peronia, northeastern Sardinia)
• Aborigines (mythology) (Casci Latini) - Latium Sicels
  • Prisci Latini (Old Latins) (according to tradition and legend they were formed by the merger of Aborigines and Latium Sicels)
    • Latini (Latins (Italic tribe))
      • Abolani
      • Aesulani
      • Acienses
      • Albans (Albani) (Populi Albenses) (in Alba Longa Land, between the modern-day Lake Albano and Monte Cavo)
      • Antemnates (in Antemnae) (sometimes regarded as Sabines)
      • Bolani / Bovillani
      • Bubetani
      • Cusuetani (originally Latin tribe that was conquered and assimilated by the Volsci)
      • Coriolani, Old / Old Coriolani (originally Latin tribe that was conquered and assimilated by the Volsci)
      • Ficani (in Ficana Land)
      • Latin Fidenates (originally Latin tribe that was conquered and assimilated by the Etruscans, for some centuries Fidenates were Etruscans - the Fidenates Etruscans, however in the 8th century BC, Rome, after a war with Veii and Fidenae, conquered Fidenae and established a Roman Latin colony there - Fidenae Novae, and the Fidenae land was Latinized again)
      • Foreti / Foretii
      • Hortenses
      • Latinienses / Romans (Romani) (Ancient Romans) (originally in Rome and Ager Romanus or Ager Latinienses, 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, such as the Sabines, Etruscans and other Italics)
      • Longulani (originally Latin tribe that was conquered and assimilated by the Volsci)
      • Macrales
      • Manates
      • Munienses
      • Mutucumenses
      • Numinienses
      • Octulani
      • Olliculani
      • Pedani
      • Polluscini (originally Latin tribe that was conquered and assimilated by the Volsci)
      • Querquetulani
      • Sicani, Latium (Latium Sicani) (not to be confused with the Sicily's Sicani)
      • Sisolenses
      • Tolerienses (in Toleria or Tolerium Land)
      • Tutienses
      • Velienses
      • Venetulani, Latium / Latium Venetulani (may have been an originally Venetian tribe that was Latinized and assimilated)
      • Vimitellarii
      • Vitellenses
• Opici

Osco-Umbrians / Sabellians

• Umbrians
  • Aequi
  • Hernici
  • Marsi
  • Praetutii (in Ager Praetutianus, their name gave origin to the name of Abruzzo region)
  • Sabines (Sabini)
  • South Picentes/South Picenes (Pupeneis)
  • Volsci
• Oscans
  • Alfaterni (in Salerno region)
  • Aurunci (may have been the same people as the Ausones but with a different cognate name; Rhotacism: s > r)
  • Ausones (may have been the same people as the Aurunci but with a different cognate name)
  • Campanians (Campani)
  • Frentani (sometimes classified as Samnites, who they were originally descended from)
  • Lucanians
    • Bruttii
  • Marrucini
  • Paeligni
  • Picentini (in Picentini Mounts)
  • Samnites (Safineis)
    • Caraceni
    • Caudini
    • Hirpini
    • Pentri
  • Sidicini
  • Vestini

Other possible Italic peoples

• Elymi? (Elymians)
• Oenotri? (Oenotrians)
  • Itali
  • Morgetes?
  • Sicels (Siculi)
• Rutuli?
• Sicani?

Veneti

Usually they are included as an Italic people by many scholars. However other scholars argue that they could have been a transitional people between Celts and Italics, a Celticized Italic people or a Para-Celtic people.

• Carni? (may have been a Celtic tribe)
• Catali
• Catari
• Histri
• Iapydes
• Liburnians (Liburni)
  • Alutae (chief town: Aluus or Aloiis)
  • Assesiates
  • Buni
  • Burnistae
  • Caulici
  • Curictae (on the island of Curicta, now Krk)
  • Encheleae
  • Fertinates
  • Flanates (chief town: Flanona, which gave name to the Sinus Flanaticus)
  • Hymani (or Ismeni)
  • Hythmitae
  • Lacinienses
  • Lopsi (chief town: Lopsica, now Sveti Juraj)
  • Mentores
  • Olbonenses
  • Peucetiae
  • Stlupini
  • Syopii
  • Varvarini (chief town: Varvaria)
• 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

1. Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1845). The History of Rome, Volume 1, p. 154.
2. Gary D. Farney, Guy Bradley, eds. (2017). The Peoples of Ancient Italy, P. 478.
3. Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1845). The History of Rome, Volume 1, p. 154.
4. Š. Batović, Liburnska kultura, Matica Hrvatska i Arheološki muzej Zadar, Zadar, 2005, UDK: 904 (398 Liburnija), ISBN 953-6419-50-5, pages 64-66

Further reading

• Gianna G. Buti e Giacomo Devoto, Preistoria e storia delle regioni d'Italia, Sansoni Università, 1974
• Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli, Italia, omnium terrarum alumna, Officine grafiche Garzanti Milano, Garzanti-Schewiller, 1990
• Giacomo Devoto, Gli antichi Italici, 2a ed. Firenze, Vallecchi, 1951.
• Gary D. Farney, Guy Bradley (edits.) (2018). The Peoples of Ancient Italy. Boston, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
• Sabatino Moscati, Così nacque l'Italia: profili di popoli riscoperti, Società editrice internazionale, Torino 1998.
• Niebuhr, Barthold Georg. (1835). The History of Rome. Philadelphia: Thomas Wardle
• Francisco Villar, Gli Indoeuropei e le origini dell'Europa, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1997. ISBN 88-15-05708-0
• Vittore Pisani, Lingue preromane d'Italia. Origini e fortune, 1978.

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).

• Italic peoples
• Lists of ethnic groups
• Lists of ancient people
• Italy history-related lists