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
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) Sardinia Falisci (in and around Peronia, northeastern Sardinia) 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) LatiniBarthold Georg Niebuhr (1845). The History of Rome, Volume 1, p. 154.Gary D. Farney, Guy Bradley, eds. (2017). The Peoples of Ancient Italy, P. 478. (Latins (Italic tribe)) Abolani, mentioned by Pliny the Elder as a people who partook in a ceremony atop the Alban Hills. Pliny mentions that they had supposedly disappeared without a trace by his lifetime. 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 Volsci) Coriolani, Old / Old Coriolani (originally Latin tribe that was conquered and assimilated by the Volsci) 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)Barthold Georg Niebuhr (1845). The History of Rome, Volume 1, p. 154. 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 Volsci) Macrales Manates Munienses Mutucumenses Numinienses Octulani Olliculani Pedani Polluscini (originally Latin tribe that was conquered and assimilated by the Volsci) 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) Campani Frentani (sometimes classified as Samnites, whom 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) Italiotes 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 LiburniŠ. Batović, Liburnska kultura, Matica Hrvatska i Arheološki muzej Zadar, Zadar, 2005, UDK: 904 (398 Liburnija), , pages 64-66 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
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. 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).