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Latium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Latium (Latin: ), the cradle of Rome, consisted originally of the coastal plain from the mouth of the Tiber to the Circeian promontory, and its adjacent foothills. Its area constituted a part of the ...
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Lazio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Latium guide ... Latium (Lazio in Italian) is a region of central Italy, bordered by Tuscany, Umbria, Abruzzo, Molise, Campania and the Tyrrhenian Sea. It comprises 5 provinces: Rome, Viterbo, Latina, Frosinone and Rieti. Regional capital is Rome.
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Cary & Scullard Chapter 4: Latium and Rome ... Geography of early Latium (map) ... Latium and Rome...
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Rome is located right in the heart of Italy on a large plain known as Latium. (see The Geography of Italy) ... The people of Latium were called Latins and they all spoke the same language. ... The History of Rome - Latium and Geography...
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To put it in technical language, the succession to the kingship at Rome and probably in Latium generally would seem to have been determined by certain rules which have moulded early society in many parts of the world, namely exogamy, _beena_ marriage, and female kinship or mother-kin.
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It includes the cradle of the Roman civilization, i.e., the Latium vetus, inhabited by the Latini. North of the river Anio, some Latin towns were in the land of the Sabini (the so-called Sabina Tiberina). Other small peoples were the Hernici in the mountains, the Rutuli and the Aurunci on the coast.
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