List of ancient Italic peoples

Italy in 400 BC. The Italic tribes lived at this point in the south-central part of the Italian peninsula.

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.

Background

The first Italic tribes to enter the Italian peninsula, moved across the eastern Alpine passes into the plain of the Po River about 1800 BC . Later they crossed the Apennines and eventually occupied the region of Latium, which included Rome. Before 1000 BC related tribes followed, which later divided into various groups and gradually moved to central and southern Italy.

List

• Latino-Faliscans:
  • Falisci
  • Latins
• Osco-Umbrians, also called Sabellians:
  • Umbrians
    • Marsi
    • Umbri
    • Volsci
  • Oscans
    • Marrucini
    • Osci
      • Aurunci
      • Ausones
      • Campanians
    • Paeligni
    • Sabines
  • Samnitics
    • Bruttii
    • Frentani
    • Lucani
    • Samnites
      • Pentri
      • Caraceni
      • Caudini
      • Hirpini
  • Others
    • Aequi
    • Fidenates
    • Hernici
    • Picentes
    • Vestini
    • Sicels

See also

• Prehistoric Italy
• Italic peoples
• List of ancient peoples of Italy
• List of ancient Greek tribes

Further reading

• Gianna G. Buti e Giacomo Devoto, Preistoria e storia delle regioni d'Italia, Sansoni Università, 1974
• Giacomo Devoto, Gli antichi Italici, 2a ed. Firenze, Vallecchi, 1951.
• Sabatino Moscati, Così nacque l'Italia: profili di popoli riscoperti, Società editrice internazionale, Torino 1998.
• Vittore Pisani, Lingue preromane d'Italia. Origini e fortune, 1978.
• Giovanni Pugliese Carratelli, Italia, omnium terrarum alumna, Officine grafiche Garzanti Milano, Garzanti-Schewiller, 1990
• Francisco Villar, Gli Indoeuropei e le origini dell'Europa, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1997. ISBN 88-15-05708-0