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Approximate distribution of languages in Iron Age Italy during the sixth century BC, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy. The Picentes or Piceni [1] 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.
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 . The Piceni or Picentes were the native population of Picenum, but they were ...
The regions of Italy were governed at the end of the fourth century by eight consulares (Venetiae et Histriae, Aemiliae, Liguriae, Flaminiae et Piceni annonarii, Tusciae et Umbriae, Piceni suburbicarii, Campaniae, and Siciliae), two correctores (Apuliae et Calabriae and Lucaniae et Bruttiorum) and seven praesides (Alpium Cottiarum, Rhaetia ...
Opici. Aurunci/Ausones. Sidicini. Campanians - Centered in the region of Naples. Mamertines. Paeligni. Frentani - Centered on the southern Adriatic coast. Samnites - Centered in central Italy, south-east of Rome north-east of Capua . Pentri.
North Picene, also known as North Picenian or Northern Picene, is a supposed ancient language, which may have been spoken in part of central-eastern Italy. The evidence for the language consists of four inscriptions dating from the 1st millennium BC, three of them no more than small broken fragments. It is written in a form of the Old Italic ...
Strabo makes it clear that in his time, the end of the first century BC, most people used the names Messapia, Iapygia, Calabria and Salentina interchangeably for the Salento. [4] The name Calabria for the entire peninsula was made official when the Roman emperor Augustus divided Italy in regions and gave the whole region of Apulia the name ...
It was the first Italian city to rise up against Rome in 90 BC during the Social War. An account described the city as home to a war-like people that bore generation-old grudge against Rome for encroaching on its northern territories. [ 7 ] It was besieged and captured following the Battle of Asculum (89 BC). [ 8 ]
Potenza Picena is a comune (municipality) in central Italy, situated in the Province of Macerata, in the Marche region. It has 15,503 [2] residents. Until 1862, it was called Monte Santo. [3] The river Potenza flows nearby.