• The Marrucini were an Italic tribe that occupied a small strip of territory around the ancient Teate (modern Chieti), on the east coast of Abruzzo, Italy...
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    (Prata d'Ansidonia), Pinna (Penne) and Aternum (Pescara, shared with the Marrucini). Writing at about 100 years after the end of the Social War, a failed...
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    Latin). As Theate Marrucinorum, Chieti was the chief town of the warlike Marrucini. Discoveries of great importance to the prehistory of Abruzzo and traces...
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  • first mentioned as a member of a confederacy that included the Marsi, Marrucini, and Vestini, with which the Romans came into conflict in the Second Samnite...
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    Rome mentioned by Dionysius of Halicarnassus there were the Frentani, Marrucini, Paeligni, Dauni, and Umbrians. There might also have been contingents...
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    Apennines to the Adriatic, and from the frontiers of Apulia to those of the Marrucini. They were bounded on the west by the Samnites, with whom they were closely...
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    Marrucinian and Paelignian) known only from inscriptions left by the Hernici, Marrucini and Paeligni, minor tribes of eastern central Italy. Adapted from the...
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  • name was first applied by Niebuhr and encompassed the Sabines, Marsi, Marrucini and Vestini. Pliny in one passage says the Samnites were also called Sabelli...
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    around Lake Fucinus Volsci - Centered on the Pontine plain South Picenes Marrucini Oscans - Centered in the part of Italy towards Tyrrhenia". Opici Aurunci/Ausones...
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    forces Messapians Greek cities in Sicily Italy: Roman Republic Marsi Marrucini Paeligni Frentani Dauni Umbrians Sicily: Carthage Commanders and leaders...
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    Osco-Umbrians, also called Sabellians: Umbrians Marsi Umbri Volsci Oscans Marrucini Osci Aurunci Ausones Campanians Paeligni Sabines Samnitics Bruttii Frentani...
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    Frentani, and, more generically, Osco-Umbrian Aequi, Praetutii, Vestini, Marrucini, Marsi and Peligni. Considered extremely strong by Ancient writers, they...
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  • origin among the Marrucini. Pollio may therefore have been the grandson of Herius Asinius, a plebeian and a general of the Marrucini who fought on the...
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    and the Samnites, and the tribes which sprung from them, as the Marsi, Marrucini, Peligni, Picentes, Hirpini, and others. Their expansion was in a southward...
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    Statielli, Taurini); Italics (Latins, Falisci, Marsi, Umbri, Volsci, Marrucini, Osci, Aurunci, Ausones, Campanians, Paeligni, Sabines, Bruttii, Frentani...
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  • The Roman clients in Italy the Marsi, the Paeligni, the Vestini, the Marrucini, the Picentes, the Frentani, the Hirpini, the Iapyges, Pompeii, Venosa...
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    mentioned alliances struck after the Second Samnite War with the Marsi, Marrucini, and Paeligni (304 BC) and the Vestini (302 BC), gave Rome control of...
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    their capital to Bovianum. The Romans also subjugated the Vestini and the Marrucini. By summer, the Romans had pacified the northern theatre, except for Asculum...
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    precede the Roman conquest. It was founded to be the port of Vestini and Marrucini tribes to trade with the peoples of the Orient, a supporting role that...
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    Aequian Vestinian (Most likely Oscan, like their neighbors Paeligni and Marrucini, whom the Vestini were closely connected with.) Little-documented variants...
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  • mentioned as members of a confederacy with the Vestini, Paeligni and Marrucini. They joined the Samnites in 308 BC, and, on their submission, became...
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    near the Pescara River. In around 1000 BCE it was conquered by Marsi and Marrucini people. The city was also lived in by the Greeks, who named it Teate....
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  • Indo-European 150s BC Marsica Marsi Marrucinian Indo-European 200s BC Chieti Marrucini Merya Uralic [data missing] Upper Volga region Meryans Meshchera Uralic...
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  • Herius Asinius, of Teate, was the commander of the Marrucini in the Marsic War. He fell in battle against Gaius Marius in 90 BC. He may have been the...
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    Samnites, who they were originally descended from) Lucanians Bruttii Marrucini Paeligni Picentini (in Picentini Mounts) Samnites (Safineis) Caraceni...
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  • Silo was given command of the Marsic group (Marsi, Paeligni, Vestini, Marrucini, Picentes, Frentani), whereas his consular colleague Gaius Papius Mutilus...
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  • camp. The Roman side was protected by Italian allies: two cohorts of Marrucini and Paeligni and two squadrons of Samnite cavalry. More troops (of Vestini...
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  • inhabitants of Aricia, the form of the name ranking them with the Sidicini, Marrucini, etc., as one of the communities belonging probably to the earlier or...
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    central Italians. The Etruscans and the Umbrian-speaking tribes (Marsi, Marrucini, Paeligni and Frentani) remained loyal. In the later years of the war...
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  • of this gens mentioned in history is Herius Asinius, commander of the Marrucini during the Social War. The Asinii probably obtained Roman citizenship...
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