Question

Why do you think the area including and surrounding Rome was called Latium?

Answer 1

Because it was inhabited by Latin tribes.

Explanation:

• The Latins, one of the Italian peoples, inhabited the originally relatively restricted territory south of the Tiber, named after them Latium, which was historically reduced by the invasion of the Vols in the area between called Latium Novum.

• The historical significance of the Latin tribes is fundamentally related to the city of Rome, the point of defense towards the Etruscan region.

• The intertwining of the legends of the founding of Rome makes the ethnographic traditions of Lazio very colorful and complex. Linguistic indicators, beginning with inscriptions from the 7th and 6th centuries BC pointing to the individuality of the Latin world, different from the neighboring Etruscan civilization and from the Eastern Italian peoples.

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