The etymology of Tusci is based on a beneficiary phrase in the third Iguvine tablet, which is a major source for the Umbrian language.

Umbrian agriculture is noted for its tobacco, its olive oil and its vineyards, which produce excellent wines.

Another typical Umbrian product is the black truffle found in Valnerina, an area that produces 45 % of this product in Italy.

* National Museum of Umbrian Archaeology, where one of the longest inscription in Etruscan is conserved, the so-called Cippus perusinus.

* Perusine War: A armed resistance breaks out across Italy, the Umbrian city of Sentinum is captured and destroyed by Quintus Salvidienus Rufus.

The autonomy of Semo Sancus from Jupiter and the fact that Dius Fidius is an alternate theonym designating Semo Sancus ( and not Jupiter ) is shown by the name of the correspondent Umbrian god Fisus Sancius which compounds the two constituent parts of Sancus and Dius Fidius: in Umbrian and Sabine Fisus is the exact correspont of Fidius, as e. g. Sabine Clausus of Latin Claudius.

His cult is one of the most ancient of the Romans, probably derived from Umbrian influences.

Umbrian is an extinct Italic language formerly spoken by the Umbri in the ancient Italian region of Umbria.

In the north Val Tevere (" Valley of the Tiber ") is a deep valley separating the Umbrian Apennines on the left bank from a lesser range, the Tuscan Anti-or Sub-Apennines on its right.

The major difficulty is discriminating the Umbrian of the Northern Apennines from the Umbrian-Marchean of the Central Apennines.

This is the southernmost limit of the Umbrian Apennines, according to the dictionary.

In a process instituted against a particular Umbrian group of Fraticelli in 1360, it is noted that Fra Francesco Niccolò of Perugia was their founder.

The main difficulty in understanding the meaning of the text is the insufficient knowledge of the Umbrian vocabulary.

Such a meaning is connected to the Umbrian word for border, tuder: Tursa is written Tuda in the Etruscan tablets, the intervocalic d being pronounced as a weak rs ( i. e..

* Nerius, or Nero, a praenomen common to Oscan and Umbrian, was said to mean fortis ac strenuus, that is, strong or vigorous.

Together with S. Rufino in Assisi, it is the finest extant specimen of Umbrian Romanesque.

One important work of art is the 13th century Crucifixion of the Umbrian school.

Cesena was originally an Umbrian or Etruscan town, known as Caesena.

Gualdo has a long history and was originally an Umbrian village known as Tarsina.

They are known almost exclusively through inscriptions, principally of Oscan and Umbrian, though there are also some Osco-Umbrian loanwords in Latin.

The Italic languages are first attested in writing from Umbrian and Faliscan inscriptions dating to the 7th century BC.

The Etruscans were the chief enemies of the Umbri, and the Etruscan invasion went from the western seaboard towards the north and east ( lasting from about 700 to 500 BC ), eventually driving the Umbrians towards the Apenninic uplands and capturing 300 Umbrian towns.

Faliscan, Oscan, Umbrian, North Picene, and South Picene all derive from an Etruscan form of the alphabet.

The name also appears on a dedicatory cippus from Civita d ' Antino, in the Umbrian Iguvine Tablets, and in inscriptions in the territories of the Paeligni, Vestini, and Sabines.

The older, the Umbrian alphabet, like other Old Italic alphabets, was derived from the Etruscan alphabet, and was written right-to-left.

Paelignian and this group of inscriptions generally form a most important link in the chain of the Italic dialects, as without them the transition from Oscan to Umbrian would be completely lost.

Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary defines the Umbrian Apennines to extend from the " sources of the Tiber " to Scheggia Pass, bounded on the east by the border between Umbria and Marches, which runs along the divide.

In his Beiträge zur Deutung der Eugubinischen Tafeln ( 1833 ) he prepared the way for the correct interpretation of the Umbrian inscriptions ; and the Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes ( 7 vols., 1837-1850 ), started and largely conducted by him, contains, among other valuable papers from his pen, grammatical sketches of the Beluchi and Brahui languages, and an essay on the Lycian inscriptions.

( 9 ) Umbrian ( inscription on a bronze plate from Plestia, 4th century BC )

The exact relationship of Venetic to other Indo-European languages is still being investigated, but the majority of scholars agree that Venetic, aside from Liburnian, was closest to the Italic languages ( a group that includes Latin, Oscan and Umbrian ).

Trevi's main museum is the Museo S. Francesco, attached to the Gothic church of that name, now secularized ; it contains some slight Roman lapidary material, but a more important collection of Umbrian painting from the late Middle Ages through the 17th century: the main work is the Coronation of the Virgin altarpiece by Lo Spagna, originally in San Martino.

1st half of the 16th century ), Italian painter of the Umbrian school, probably from Foligno in Umbria.

From the top of the ridge, Spello commands a good view of the Umbrian plain towards Perugia ; at the bottom of the ridge, the town spills out of its walls into a small modern section ( or Borgo ) served by the rail line from Rome to Florence via Perugia.

The interior has 14th century votive frescoes from the Umbrian school.

from the 13th century it had been a free comune under the domination of local nobles and merchants, but later, as with many other Umbrian locales, the comune gave way to government by a Signoria — in this case, that of the Trinci from the nearby Foligno ( 1383 – 1439 ).

PGmc * wenđanan comes from Proto-Indo-European *- ‘ to wind, twist ’, which also gave Umbrian preuenda ‘ turn !’ ( imperative ), Tocharian A / B wänt / wänträ ‘ covers, envelops ’, Greek ( Hesychius ) áthras ‘ wagon ’, Armenian gind ‘ ring ’, and Sanskrit vandhúra ‘ carriage framework ’.

" The film's famous last scenes where the monster fish is pulled out of the sea and Marcello waves goodbye to Paola ( the teenage " Umbrian angel ") were shot on location at Passo Oscuro, a small resort town situated on the Italian coast 30 kilometers north of Rome.

The Etruscans, as evidenced by the inscriptions, used several words: capen ( Sabine cupencus ), maru ( Umbrian maron -), eisnev, hatrencu ( priestess ).

In his early career, he concentrated on the Italic dialects, including among his published work, Der Vocalismus der oskischen Sprache ( 1892 ), The Oscan-Umbrian Verb-System ( 1895 ), and Grammar of Oscan and Umbrian, with a collection of inscriptions and a glossary ( 1904 ), and a précis of the Italic languages in Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia.

In addition to collecting Norwegian folksongs and traditions and writing on Runic inscriptions, he made considerable contributions to the study of the Celtic, Romance, Oscan, Umbrian and Etruscan languages.

The town of Nocera was founded in the 7th century BC by inhabitants from Camerinum, an Umbrian town, who left their ancestral homeland during a so called ver sacrum ( sacred spring ).