Umbri

  • Ligurians
  • Veneti
  • Etruscan
  • Piceno
  • Umbrians
  • Latins
  • Osker
  • Messapians
  • Greeks

The Umbrians ( and Umbrian ) populated at the beginning of the 1st millennium BC, the landscape, which was named after them, Umbria, and some surrounding areas. They were an Indo-European and Italic tribe and spoke their own language, the Umbrian.

They founded several city-states such as Ameria ( Amelia), Ariminum ( Rimini), Asisium ( Assisi ), Iguvium ( Gubbio), Interamna (Terni ), Perusia (Perugia ) and Spoletium ( Spoleto ). They were under strong Etruscan influence and were 308 BC after the defeat at Mevania finally under Roman rule. They were Romanized quickly.

The most famous Umbrian was the Latin writing comic poet Plautus.

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