Pre-Samnite was an ancient language spoken in southern Campania, in Italy. The name Pre-Samnite refers to the fact that the language was spoken in early...

The Samnites (Oscan: Safineis) were an ancient Italic people who lived in Samnium, which is located in modern inland Abruzzo, Molise, and Campania in south-central...

The Samnites were an ancient Italic people who lived in modern south-central Italy, placing them between the Latins to the north and the Greek settlements...

Indo-European languages. Far more work has gone into reconstructing PIE than any other proto-language, and it is the best understood of all proto-languages of its...

with languages spoken in the northern central region of the peninsula. Umbrian Marsian Sabine Volscian Hernican Picene-Pre-Samnite South Picene Pre-Samnite...

Oscan (Marrucinian, Paelignian, Vestinian), and Sabine (Samnite) Picene languages Pre-Samnite (6th–5th c. BC) South Picene (6th–4th c. BC) (?) Siculian...

Italic languages of the Indo-European family, while Glottolog classifies it as an Old Sabellic dialect alongside South Picene and Pre-Samnite. Latin-speakers...

Oscan language, they developed a distinctive culture and identity. Although partly of Samnite blood, they came to regard the mountain Samnites that surrounded...

dialect. The Lucani spoke a variety of the Umbrian-Oscan language, like their neighbours, the Samnites, who had absorbed the Osci in the 5th century BC. The...

Sidicinian (was spoken by the Sidicini) Pre-Samnite (ancient language spoken in southern Campania, in Italy, before Samnite conquest) Unclassified (within Italic)...

name of a certain Volnio who wrote tragedies in the Etruscan language. Even the Samnites had original representational forms that had a lot of influence...

most certainly neither Greek nor belonging to some other Italic or pre-Italic language)." ΝΕΝΔΑΣ Π̣Υ̣[----]Σ ΤΕΒΕΓ ΠΡΑΑΡΕΙ ΕΝ ΒΟ[.]ΡΕΝΑΙ ϜΙΔΕ ΠΑΓΟΣΤΙΚΕ...

west of the plain, were strongly held by the Hirpini, an Oscan-speaking Samnite tribe. Central Iapygia was composed of the Murge Plateau (686 m), an area...

before the Samnite Wars and argues that it was not obtained from the Samnites. In some parts of Italy the scutum had been used since pre-historical times...

Roman polytheism (pre-Christian Romans of the Roman Empire) Sámi religion (Sami people of Fennoscandia) Samnite religion (Samnites of Samnium) Slavic...

Camuni, Etruscans) likely spoke non- or pre-Indo-European languages. In addition, peoples speaking languages of the Afro-Asiatic family, specifically...

languages and dialects that have no native speakers, no spoken descendants, and diverged from their parent language in Europe. Europe portal Language...

VIII of the town (the old town) as identified from stratigraphy below the Samnite and Roman buildings, as well as from the different and irregular street...

of the earliest types of gladiators were experienced fighters; Gauls, Samnites, and Thraeces (Thracians) used their native weapons and armor. Different...

the second half of the 4th century BC Rome clashed repeatedly with the Samnites, a powerful tribal coalition of the Apennine region. By the end of these...

Cumae, the most northerly of the Greek colonies in Italy, falls to the Samnites. The construction of the Porch of the Maidens (the Caryatid Porch) commences...

was inhabited from the beginning of the 1st millennium BC by the Osci, Samnites and Etruscans, while between the 8th and 7th centuries BC its coastal areas...

the old Oscan-Samnite civilization and has been called "the Athens of the Sannio" due to the large number of ancient ruins of the Samnite culture. According...

came to an end with the Samnite invasion, in the latter half of the 5th century BC. About 424 BC Capua was captured by the Samnites, and in 343 BC sought...

primarily refers to 'speakers of Celtic languages' rather than to a single ethnic group. The history of pre-Celtic Europe and Celtic origins is debated...

under the dominion of the Roman Republic. At the beginning of the First Samnite War in 343 BCE, Capua either "surrendered" or "allied" itself to Rome,...

being from the same root: Suiones (whence also the name of the Swedes), Samnites, Sabellians, Sabines, and, according to one of the hypotheses, Slavs, indicating...

emitted from the ground in swamps and volcanic vapors. Mefitis was the Samnite and Oscian goddess of the foul-smelling gases of the earth, worshipped...

Arbëresh language retains many archaisms of medieval Albanian from pre-Ottoman Albania in the 15th century. It also retains some Greek language elements...

the Senones. The defeat of the combined Samnite, Celtic and Etruscan alliance by the Romans in the Third Samnite War ending in 290 BC sounded the beginning...