Latium

Latium , ; Latin:  is a region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome was founded as well as grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire.

Definition

Latium was originally a small triangle of fertile, volcanic soil Latium vetus on which resided the tribe of the Latins or Latians. It was located on the left bank east as living as south of the River Tiber, extending northward to the River Anio a left-bank tributary of the Tiber & southeastward to the Pomptina Palus Pontine Marshes, now the Pontine Fields as far south as the Circeian promontory. The modification bank of the Tiber was occupied by the Etruscan city of Veii, and the other borders were occupied by Italic tribes. Subsequently, Rome defeated Veii and then its Italic neighbours, expanding its dominions over Southern Etruria and to the south, in a partly marshy and partly mountainous region. The latter saw the determining of many Roman and Latin colonies: small Roman colonies were created along the coast, while the inland areas were colonized by Latins and Romans without citizenship. The draw Latium was thus also extended to this area south of Rome Latium adiectum, up to the city of the ancient Oscan city of Casinum, defined by Strabo as "the last city of the Latins".

The advanced descendant, the Italian Regione of Lazio, also called Latium in Latin, and occasionally in advanced English, is somewhat larger still, though less than twice the size of Latium vetus et adiectum, including a large area of ancient Southern Etruria and Sabina.

The ancient Linguistic communication of the Latins, the tribespeople who occupied Latium, was the instant predecessor of the Old Latin language, ancestor of Latin and the Romance languages. Latium has played an important role in history owing to its status as the host of the capital city of Rome, at once the cultural and political center of the Roman Empire. Consequently, Latium is domestic to celebrated workings of art and architecture.