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Picenum, the Glossary

Picenum was a region of ancient Italy.^[1]

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Ancient Abruzzo
History of le Marche

Abruzzo

Abruzzo (Abbrùzze, Abbrìzze or Abbrèzze; Abbrùzzu), historically known as Abruzzi, is a region of Southern Italy with an area of 10,763 square km (4,156 sq mi) and a population of 1.3 million.

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Adriatic Sea

The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan Peninsula.

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The Ager Gallicus was the territory in northern Picenum that had been occupied by the Senone Gauls and was conquered by Rome in 284 BC or 283 BC, either after the Battle of Arretium or the Battle of Lake Vadimon. Picenum and Ager Gallicus are history of le Marche.

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Ager publicus

The ager publicus is the Latin name for the state land of ancient Rome.

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Ancona

Ancona (also) is a city and a seaport in the Marche region of Central Italy, with a population of around 101,997.

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Apennine Mountains

The Apennines or Apennine Mountains (Ἀπέννινα ὄρη or Ἀπέννινον ὄρος; Appenninus or Apenninus Mons– a singular with plural meaning; Appennini)Latin Apenninus (Greek Ἀπέννινος or Ἀπέννινα) has the form of an adjective, which would be segmented Apenn-inus, often used with nouns such as mons ("mountain") or Greek ὄρος, but Apenninus is just as often used alone as a noun.

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Archaeological Park of Urbs Salvia

The Archaeological Park of Urbs Salvia is situated in the comune of Urbisaglia (Province of Macerata), in the Marches, Italy.

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Ascoli Piceno

Ascoli Piceno (dialetto ascolano|Ascule; Asculum) is a comune (municipality) and capital of the province of Ascoli Piceno, in the Italian region of Marche.

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Aso (river)

The Aso (Helvinus) is a river in the Marche region of Italy.

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Atri, Abruzzo

Atri (Ἀτρία; Latin: Adria, Atria, Hadria, or Hatria) is a comune in the Province of Teramo in the Abruzzo region of Italy.

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Augustus

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (born Gaius Octavius; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August AD 14), also known as Octavian (Octavianus), was the founder of the Roman Empire.

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Cingoli

Cingoli is a town and comune of the Marches, Italy, in the province of Macerata, about by road from the town of Macerata.

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Civitanova Marche

Civitanova Marche is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Macerata in the Italian region Marche, located about southeast of Ancona and about east of Macerata.

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Civitella del Tronto

Civitella del Tronto is a town and comune in the province of Teramo, within the Abruzzo region of central Italy.

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Corridonia

Corridonia is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Macerata in the Italian region Marche, located about south of Ancona and about southeast of Macerata.

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Cupra (goddess)

Cupra (also spelled Cubrar, Ikiperu, Kypra or Supra) was a chthonic fertility goddess of the ancient pre-Roman population of the Piceni and the Umbri, and may have been associated with Etruscan Uni.

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Cupra Marittima

Cupra Marittima (Cupra Maritima) is in the Province of Ascoli Piceno in the Italian region Marche, located about southeast of Ancona and about northeast of Ascoli Piceno.

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Cupramontana

Cupramontana is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Ancona in the Italian region Marche, located about southwest of Ancona.

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Edict on Maximum Prices

The Edict on Maximum Prices (Latin: Edictum de Pretiis Rerum Venalium, "Edict Concerning the Sale Price of Goods"; also known as the Edict on Prices or the Edict of Diocletian) was issued in 301 AD by Diocletian.

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Esino

The Esino (Aesis) is a river in the Marche region of central Italy.

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Falerone

Falerone is a town and comune in the province of Fermo, in the Italian region of the Marche, southeast of Urbisaglia.

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Fermo

Fermo (ancient: Firmum Picenum) is a town and comune of the Marche, Italy, in the Province of Fermo.

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Geographica

The Geographica (Γεωγραφικά, Geōgraphiká; Geographica or Strabonis Rerum Geographicarum Libri XVII, "Strabo's 17 Books on Geographical Topics") or Geography, is an encyclopedia of geographical knowledge, consisting of 17 'books', written in Greek in the late 1st century BC, or early 1st century AD, and attributed to Strabo, an educated citizen of the Roman Empire of Greek descent.

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Giulianova

Giulianova (Giuliese: Gigljië) is a coastal town and comune in the province of Teramo, Abruzzo region, Italy.

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Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo

Gnaeus Pompeius Strabo (– 87 BC) was a Roman general and politician, who served as consul in 89 BC.

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Grottammare

Grottammare (Teramano: Le Grottë) is a town and comune on Italy's Adriatic coast, in the province of Ascoli Piceno, Marche region.

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Hannibal

Hannibal (translit; 247 – between 183 and 181 BC) was a Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded the forces of Carthage in their battle against the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War.

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Indo-European languages

The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.

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Italic languages

The Italic languages form a branch of the Indo-European language family, whose earliest known members were spoken on the Italian Peninsula in the first millennium BC.

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Liburnians

The Liburnians or Liburni (Λιβυρνοί) were an ancient tribe inhabiting the district called Liburnia, a coastal region of the northeastern Adriatic between the rivers Arsia (Raša) and Titius (Krka) in what is now Croatia.

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List of ancient peoples of Italy

This list of ancient peoples living in Italy summarises the many different Italian populations that existed in antiquity.

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Macerata

Macerata is a city and comune in central Italy, the county seat of the province of Macerata in the Marche region.

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Marche

Marche, in English sometimes referred to as the Marches, is one of the twenty regions of Italy.

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Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (consul 232 BC)

Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (died 216 BC) was the Roman consul for 232 BC, and according to Livy served again as suffect consul, possibly in 221.

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Martinsicuro

Martinsicuro (former roman town of Truentum or Castrum Truentinum) is a town and comune in province of Teramo, Abruzzo, central Italy.

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Montorio al Vomano

Montorio al Vomano (Abruzzese: Mundurje) is a town and comune in the province of Teramo, in the Abruzzo region of central-southern Italy.

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Natural History (Pliny)

The Natural History (Naturalis Historia) is a Latin work by Pliny the Elder.

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Numana

Numana is a coastal town and comune of the province of Ancona in the Marche region of Italy.

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Old Italic scripts

The Old Italic scripts are a family of ancient writing systems used in the Italian Peninsula between about 700 and 100 BC, for various languages spoken in that time and place.

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Oscan language

Oscan is an extinct Indo-European language of southern Italy.

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Osco-Umbrian languages

The Osco-Umbrian, Sabellic or Sabellian languages are an extinct group of Italic languages, the Indo-European languages that were spoken in Central and Southern Italy by the Osco-Umbrians before being replaced by Latin, as the power of Ancient Rome expanded.

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Osimo

Osimo is a town and comune of the Marche region of Italy, in the province of Ancona.

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Picentes

The Picentes or Piceni or Picentini were an ancient Italic people who lived from the 9th to the 3rd century BC in the area between the Foglia and Aterno rivers, bordered to the west by the Apennines and to the east by the Adriatic coast. Picenum and Picentes are ancient Abruzzo and history of le Marche.

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Piomba

The Piomba is an Italian river in Abruzzo.

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Pliny the Elder

Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24 AD 79), called Pliny the Elder, was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.

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Polybius

Polybius (Πολύβιος) was a Greek historian of the middle Hellenistic period.

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Pompey

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (29 September 106 BC – 28 September 48 BC), known in English as Pompey or Pompey the Great, was a general and statesman of the Roman Republic.

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Porto Recanati

Porto Recanati is a town in the province of Macerata in the Marche region of Central Italy.

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Potentia (ancient city)

Potentia was a Roman town along the central Adriatic Italian coast, near the modern town of Porto Recanati, in the province of Macerata.

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Punic Wars

The Punic Wars were a series of wars between 264 and 146BC fought between the Roman Republic and Ancient Carthage.

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Region

In geography, regions, otherwise referred to as areas, zones, lands or territories, are portions of the Earth's surface that are broadly divided by physical characteristics (physical geography), human impact characteristics (human geography), and the interaction of humanity and the environment (environmental geography).

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Ricina

Ricina or Helvia Recina (located in present-day Villa Potenza) was a Roman town located in the lower Potenza valley, the contemporary Italian region Marche.

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Roman expansion in Italy

The Roman expansion in Italy covers a series of conflicts in which Rome grew from being a small Italian city-state to be the ruler of the Italian region.

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Roman Italy

Italia (in both the Latin and Italian languages), also referred to as Roman Italy, was the homeland of the ancient Romans.

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Roman Republic

The Roman Republic (Res publica Romana) was the era of classical Roman civilization beginning with the overthrow of the Roman Kingdom (traditionally dated to 509 BC) and ending in 27 BC with the establishment of the Roman Empire following the War of Actium.

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Sabines

The Sabines (Sabini; Sabini—all exonyms) were an Italic people who lived in the central Apennine Mountains (see Sabina) of the ancient Italian Peninsula, also inhabiting Latium north of the Anio before the founding of Rome. Picenum and Sabines are ancient Abruzzo.

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San Severino Marche

San Severino Marche is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Macerata in the Italian region Marche, located about southwest of Ancona and about southwest of Macerata.

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Senones

The Senones or Senonii (Gaulish: "the ancient ones") were an ancient Gallic tribe dwelling in the Seine basin, around present-day Sens, during the Iron Age and the Roman period. Picenum and Senones are history of le Marche.

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Septempeda

Septempeda was a Roman town in Picenum located near the modern San Severino Marche, Marche, Italy.

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Silvi, Abruzzo

Silvi is an Italian comune in the province of Teramo, about north of Pescara, in the Abruzzo region of central Italy.

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The Social War (from Latin bellum sociale, "war of the allies"), also called the Italian War or the Marsic War, was fought largely from 91 to 88 BC between the Roman Republic and several of its autonomous allies (socii) in Italy.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picenum

Also known as Picenum Suburbicarium.

, Region, Ricina, Roman expansion in Italy, Roman Italy, Roman Republic, Sabines, San Severino Marche, Senones, Septempeda, Silvi, Abruzzo, Social War (91–87 BC), Stadion (unit), Teramo, Tolentino, Treia, Tronto, Umbrian language, Urbisaglia, Vinum Hadrianum.

Picenum, the Glossary

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See also

Ancient Abruzzo

History of le Marche

References