Latium was a region of ancient Italy, home to the original Latin people. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Latin is the name of various peoples or ethnicities related to the Latium region in the Italian Peninsula, to the Latin language, or to its descendants Its area constituted a part of the much larger modern Italian Regione of Lazio, also called Latium in Latin, and occasionally in modern English. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest For the football club see SS Lazio Lazio ( Latium in Latin) is a regione of central Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States The ancient language of the region was to become the basis of Latin. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome.
Latium has played an important role in history, owing to its status as the cradle of the Roman Empire. It is home to celebrated works of art and architecture. Art refers to a diverse range of Human activities creations and expressions that are appealing to the Senses or Emotions of a human individual The term architecture (from Greek αρχιτεκτονικήarchitektoniki) can be used to mean a process a profession or documentation
History
The region that would become Latium had been home to settled agricultural populations since the early Bronze Age, and was known to the Ancient Greeks. The term Bronze Age refers to a period in human cultural development when the most advanced Metalworking (at least in systematic and widespread use included techniques for The Greeks ( Greek: Έλληνες) are a Nation and Ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions It was populated by a mixture of Indo-European and non-Indo-European language speakers. The Etruscans, from their home region of Etruria (modern day Tuscany) exerted a strong cultural and political influence on Latium from about the 8th century B. Etruscan civilization is the modern English name given to the culture and way of life of a people of ancient Italy Etruria &mdash usually referred to in Greek and Latin source texts as Tyrrhenia &mdash was a region of Central Italy, located in an area Tuscany (Toscana is a region in Italy. It has an area of 22990 km² and a population of about 3 C. onward. However, they were unable to assert political hegemony over the region, which was controlled by small, autonomous city-states, somewhat akin to the contemporaneous situation in Greece. A city-state is a Region controlled exclusively by a City, usually having Sovereignty. The term ancient Greece refers to the period of Greek history lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca Indeed, the region's political and geographic proximity to the states of Ancient Greece had a strong impact upon its early history. The term ancient Greece refers to the period of Greek history lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca The Phoenicians, who had a long tradition of trading with Italy, also exerted a more modest influence. Phoenicia ( Phoenician: Phoenician nunsvg|12px|נ]]Phoenician nun
One of the earliest recorded non-Etruscan settlements in Latium is the quasi-mythical city of Alba Longa located somewhat southeast of the present-day city of Rome. Alba Longa (in Italian sources occasionally written Albalonga) was an ancient city of Latium in central Italy southeast of Rome in the Alban Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 According to Livy and other ancient authorities, it was here that the Latin League was founded, a coalition of city-states intended as a bulwark against Etruscan expansion. The Latin League (c 7th century BC - 338 BC) was a confederation of about 30 villages and tribes in the region of Latium near Ancient Rome organized for
The city-state of Rome emerged as the dominant political and military power in the region, following Rome's destruction of Alba Longa in the middle of the 7th century B. Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 C.
References
- Strabo - Geographica (Strabo) book V chapter 3 - Rome 20 BC
- Athanasius Kircher - Latium - 1669 - Amsterdam 1671
- G. Strabo ( Greek: Στράβων 63/64 BC – ca AD 24 was a Greek historian, geographer and philosopher. The Geographica ( Ancient Greek: Γεωγραφικά Geōgraphiká) or Geography, is a 17-volume encyclopedia of geographical knowledge written Athanasius Kircher (sometimes erroneously spelled Kirchner) was a 17th century German Jesuit Scholar who published around 40 works most R. Volpi - Vetus Latium Profanum et Sacrum - Rome 1742
- T. J. Cornell - The beginnings of Rome: Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars - London 1995
- C. H. Smith - Early Rome and Latium. Economy and Society, c. 1000 - 500 BC, "Oxford Classical Monographs" - Oxford 1996
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