List of ancient Italic peoples

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

Map 1: Indo-European migrations as described in The Horse, the Wheel, and Language by David W. Anthony

Map 2: Possible area of origin and migration route of Proto-Italic people towards Italian peninsula

Map 3: Ethnicities of today's Italy in 400 BC. The Italic tribes lived at this point in the south-central part of the Italian peninsula.

Map 4: Approximate distribution of languages in Iron Age Italy during the sixth century BC

Map 5: The linguistic and peoples landscape of Central Italy at the beginning of Roman expansion

• 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)
• 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[1] [2] (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 Volscans)
      • Coriolani, Old / Old Coriolani (originally Latin tribe that was conquered and assimilated by the Volscans)
      • 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)[3]
      • 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 Volscans)
      • Macrales
      • Manates
      • Munienses
      • Mutucumenses
      • Numinienses
      • Octulani
      • Olliculani
      • Pedani
      • Polluscini (originally Latin tribe that was conquered and assimilated by the Volscans)
      • 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)[4]
  • 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. https://books.google.pt/books?id=sm0vAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154&dq=Polluscini&source=bl&ots=VwFmUCK31x&sig=ACfU3U0C9YZG2f10BiviTbCBBLfW6wyWEw&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiz_K_hvpbpAhXdDWMBHdabDJMQ6AEwAHoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=Polluscini&f=false
2. https://books.google.pt/books?id=UElADwAAQBAJ&pg=PA478&lpg=PA478&dq=Latium+Vetus:+Region+of+the+Populi+Albenses&source=bl&ots=gMokAVcDYv&sig=ACfU3U234GNkw3e615z_bgD0zVnVpQqTmg&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjgirOejJPpAhURzYUKHZHJBGQQ6AEwAHoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=Latium%20Vetus%3A%20Region%20of%20the%20Populi%20Albenses&f=false
3. https://books.google.pt/books?id=sm0vAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154&dq=Polluscini&source=bl&ots=VwFmUCK31x&sig=ACfU3U0C9YZG2f10BiviTbCBBLfW6wyWEw&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiz_K_hvpbpAhXdDWMBHdabDJMQ6AEwAHoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=Polluscini&f=false
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).