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 2: Possible area of origin and migration route of Proto-Italic speaking 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: Ethnolinguistic map of Italy in the Iron Age, before the Roman expansion and conquest of Italy
Map 5: The linguistic and peoples landscape of Central Italy at the beginning of Roman expansion

Latino-Faliscans

Osco-Umbrians / Sabellians

Other possible Italic peoples

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.

See also

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.

  • - 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).
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