To the south of the Tiber, other mountain groups form part of the Preapennines: the Alban Hills, also of volcanic origin, and the calcareous Lepini, Ausoni and Aurunci Mountains.

The Etruscan language was spoken and written by the Etruscan civilization, in what is present-day Italy, in the ancient region of Etruria ( modern Tuscany plus western Umbria and northern Latium ) and in parts of Lombardy, Veneto, and Emilia-Romagna ( where the Etruscans were displaced by Gauls ).

The mythologies of classicizing Roman poets were unlikely to have affected the rites and cult of individual nymphs venerated by country people in the springs and clefts of Latium.

He also frequently sojourned in towns held by his family in the Latium ( Tivoli, Vicovaro, Marino, Gallicano and others ).

Pecorino Romano was produced in Latium up to 1884 when, due to the prohibition issued by the city council of salting the cheese inside their shops in Rome, many producers moved to the island of Sardinia.

Etruria's influence over the cities of Latium and Campania weakened, and it was taken over by Romans and Samnites.

In fable Faunus appears as an old king of Latium, son of Picus, and grandson of Saturnus, father of Latinus by the nymph Marica.

While the Bishops of Rome – now beginning to be referred to as the Popes – remained de jure Byzantine subjects, in practice the Duchy of Rome, an area roughly equivalent to modern-day Latium, became an independent state ruled by the Church.

Etruria's influence over the cities of Latium and Campania weakened, and it was taken over by Romans and Samnites.

* An embassy is sent by the Latin peoples to the Roman Senate asking for the formation of a single republic between Rome and Latium, in which both parties would be considered to be equal.

The Encyclopædia Britannica 1911 edition identifies it as " an ancient village of Latium, Italy, a post station on the Via Appia, at the point where the main road was crossed by a branch from Antium.

The Etruscans were a dominant culture in Italy by 650 BC, surpassing other ancient Italic peoples such as the Ligures, and their influence may be seen beyond Etruria's confines in the Po River Valley and Latium, as well as in Campania and through their contact with the Greek colonies in Southern Italy ( including Sicily ).

According to another legend mentioned by Livy, Ascanius may have been the son of Aeneas and Lavinia and thus born in Latium, not Troy.

He was said to have founded Ardea, a city in Latium, although others suggest Ardea was founded by Danae.

Lavinia, the only child of the king and " ripe for marriage ", had been courted by many men in Ausonia who hoped to become the king of Latium.

A different etymology grounded in the legendary history of Latium and Etruria was proposed by Preller and Müller-Deeke: Etruscan Nethunus, Nethuns would be an adjectival form of toponym Nepe ( t ), Nepete ( presently Nepi ), town of the ager Faliscus near Falerii.

They then inhabited the partly hilly, partly marshy district of the south of Latium, bounded by the Aurunci and Samnites on the south, the Hernici on the east, and stretching roughly from Norba and Cora in the north to Antium in the south.

The Hernici were an ancient people of Italy, whose territory was in Latium between the Lago di Fucino and the Sacco River ( Trerus ), bounded by the Volsci on the south, and by the Aequi and the Marsi on the north.

The name of the Hernici, like that of the Volsci, is missing from the list of Italian peoples whom Polybius describes as able to furnish troops in 225 BC ; by that date, therefore, their territory cannot have been distinguished from Latium generally, and it seems probable that they had then received the full Roman citizenship.

In accord with his fundamental character of being the Beginner Janus was considered by Romans the first king of Latium, sometimes along with Camese.

The uniqueness of Janus in Latium has suggested to L. Adams Holland and J. Gagé the hypothesis of a cult brought from far away by sailors and strictly linked to the amphibious life of the primitive communities living on the banks of the Tiber.

In other towns of ancient Latium the function of presiding on beginnings was probably performed by other deities of feminine sex, notably the Fortuna Primigenia of Praeneste.

Inscriptions have been found in north-west and west-central Italy, in the region that even now bears the name of the Etruscans, Tuscany ( from Latin tuscī " Etruscans "), as well as in modern Latium north of Rome, in today's Umbria west of the Tiber, around Capua in Campania and in the Po valley to the north of Etruria.

Fidenae, or Fidenes, home of the Fidenates, was an ancient town of Latium, situated about 8 km north of Rome on the Via Salaria, which ran between Rome and the Tiber.

As the Tiber was the border between Etruria and Latium, the left-bank settlement of Fidenae represented an extension of Etruscan presence into Latium.

The best case may be for Tiberius being an Etruscan name, since that praenomen was always connected with the sacred river on the boundary of Etruria and Latium, and the Etruscan name for the Tiber was Thebris.

Lavinium () was a port city of Latium, to the south of Rome, at a median distance between the Tiber river at Ostia and Anzio.

His nature, qualities and role are reflected in the myth of him being the first to reign in Latium, on the banks of the Tiber, and there receiving god Saturn, in the age when the Earth still could bear the gods.

v. 28 ), an ancient village of Latium, situated on the west of the Via Salaria, two miles north of Rome, where the Anio falls into the Tiber.

At its maximum extent, during the foundational period of Rome and the Roman kingdom, it flourished in three confederacies of cities: of Etruria, of the Po valley with the eastern Alps, and of Latium and Campania.

In the territory of Tusculum, there was an old river called " Tuscus Amnis " which sprung at Tuscolo hill under the acropolis and ran south through the Latium valley.

31 ), in the very heart of the Samnite territory, and it is therefore probable that they occupied the whole of that rugged and mountainous district which extends from the frontiers of Latium, in the valley of the Liris ( modern Liri ), to those of the Frentani, towards the Adriatic Sea.

The Apennines of Latium are a continuation of the Apennines of Abruzzo: the Reatini Mountains with Terminillo ( 2, 213 m ), Mounts Sabini, Prenestini, Simbruini and Ernici which continue east of the Liri into the Mainarde Mountains.

Reeves reprised the role the following year in the film The Avenger, about Aeneas's arrival in Latium and his conflicts with local tribes as he tries to settle his fellow Trojan refugees there.

Cuma too had a cult of a chthonic Hecate and certainly had strict contacts with Latium.

As part of the Roman Empire, it was a comfortable period for Campania who, with Latium, formed the most important region of the Augustan divisions of Italia ; Campania was one of the main areas for grainery.

Only the Laurentes in Latium and the equites of Campania remain with the Romans, who, for their part, find support among the Paeligni.

After the Trojan War, as the city burned, Aeneas escaped to Latium in Italy, taking his father Anchises and his child Ascanius with him, though Creusa died during the escape.

She was sometimes credited with founding the city of Ardea in Latium.

Roman piece of pottery from Arezzo, Latium, found at Arikamedu in India ( 1st century AD ), an evidence of the role of the city in Roman trade with India through Persia during the Augustan period.

Macrobius relates Janus was supposed to have shared a kingdom with Camese in Latium, on a place then named Camesene.

a ) The vagueness of Janus's association with the cults of primitive Latium and his indifference towards social composition of the Roman State suggest the inference that he was a god of an earlier amphibious merchant society in which the role of the guardian was indispensable.

This view has the word originating in Latium inconsistently with the theory of the northern origin.

The Prince of Benevento, Rudolf, the Duke of Gaeta, the Counts of Aquino and Teano, the Archbishop and the citizens of Amalfi — together with men from Apulia, Molise, Campania, Abruzzo and Latium — answered the call of the Pope, and formed a coalition that moved against the Normans.

Volturnus was the father of the goddess Juturna, who was first identified with a spring in Latium near the Numicus River and later with a pool near the Temple of Vesta in the Forum of Rome.

Ascoli was founded by an Italic population ( Piceni ) several centuries before Rome's founding on the important Via Salaria, the salt road that connected Latium with the salt production areas on the Adriatic coast.

Typically, the double-reeded versions ( Marche, Abruzzo, Latium, Campania, southern Basilicata and parts of Sicily and southern Calabria ) will have a soprano chanter on the right and a bass chanter on the left ( called, respectively, " ritta " and " manga " — meaning ' right ' and ' left ' — in the Ciociaro tradition ) with an alto drone ( bordone being the generic name ); but as many as three drones, the other tuned above and below the basic chord can be used, or, in the case of the Marches tradition, no drones at all.

He used the chronicles of his own and other important Roman families as sources, and began with the arrival of Aeneas in Latium.

Jupiter then gathered all the nymphs in Latium seeking their help in capturing Juturna, saying " Your sister is spiting herself by shunning her own advantage, an entanglement with the highest god.

* Cerveteri DOC ( Latium ) – Primarily Trebbiano, Romagnolo, Giallo and Malvasia with up to 15 % of Verdicchio permitted along with Friulano, Bellone and / or Bombino.