Latins (Italic tribe)

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The Latins (Latin: Latīnī), sometimes known as the Latials or Latians, were an Italic people that included the early inhabitants of the city of Rome (see Roman people). From about 1000 BC, the Latins inhabited the small region known to the Romans as Old Latium (in Latin Latium vetus), the area in the Italian Peninsula between the Tiber river and the promontory of Mount Circeo, 100 km (62 mi) southeast of Rome. Following the Roman expansion, the Latins spread into the Latium adiectum, which was inhabited by Osco-Umbrian peoples. Their language, Latin, belongs to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. The Italic peoples emerged from the Urnfield and Tumulus groups, who spread across Italy during the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age. The material culture of the Latins, known as the Latial culture, was a distinctive variant of the proto-Villanovan culture, which appeared in certain areas of the Italian peninsula during the first half of the 12th century BC. Before and after their...

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