Sabina (region)

The Sabina is a historical region in the Sabine mountains of the Apennines. The name refers to the living there in ancient times people of the Sabines, a part of the Indo-European root Sabellians. The area is now mostly the province of Rieti in the Lazio region. Other parts include the southern Umbria ( Cascia, Amelia, Narni, Accumoli and Norcia ) and the Abruzzo region.

The Sabines were immediate neighbors of the Romans. A part is settled on the Quirinal, Esquiline and Viminal and with the Latins (Roma quadrata on the Palatine Hill ) among its leaders Titus Tatius and Romulus to BC founded 750 a town (see: The Rape of the Sabine Women ) and the second Roman King Numa Pompilius have provided. Unmistakably, however, is the Etruscan influence in the founding of Rome, such as the derivation of the town name from the Etruscan gene Ruma shows, and for the many other references still exist.

Despite the similarities, there were still armed conflict until the Sabines were defeated 290 BC by Manius Curius Dentatus and Roman citizens sine suffragio were (see: municipium ). A portion of their land has expropriated and distributed to needy Roman citizens. 241 BC the Sabines received the full Roman citizenship.

In the Augustan period, the area of the regions was slammed IV ( Samnium ); in the time of Diocletian it was part of the " Italia suburbicaria " and was ruled by Rome. Among the Lombards the area of Sabina for a while (around 570 ) for independent Duchy of Spoleto Spoleto as the capital belonged. With the formation of the Papal States but Sabina was directly subordinated to the pontificate, in the 10th and 11th century, de facto the " Count of Sabina ", the Crescentiern.

In the 5th century, was Sabina seat of a bishopric. The present Diocese of Sabina -Poggio Mirteto is suburbikarisches diocese and as such belongs to the Ecclesiastical Province of Rome. Bishop's seat is the town of Poggio Mirteto.