- 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...
- Latin). As
Theate Marrucinorum,
Chieti was the
chief town of the
warlike Marrucini.
Discoveries of
great importance to the
prehistory of
Abruzzo and traces...
- (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...
-
Marrucinian and Paelignian)
known only from
inscriptions left by the Hernici,
Marrucini and Paeligni,
minor tribes of
eastern central Italy.
Adapted from the...
-
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...
- of this gens
mentioned in
history is
Herius Asinius,
commander of the
Marrucini during the
Social War. The
Asinii probably obtained Roman citizenship...
-
including the
Romans Falisci Umbri, Sabines, Marsi, Volsci,
South Picenes,
Marrucini, Aequi, Hernici, Vestini,
Paeligni Samnites,
including the Pentri, Caraceni...
- name was
first applied by
Niebuhr and encomp****ed the Sabines, Marsi,
Marrucini and Vestini.
Pliny in one p****age says the
Samnites were also
called Sabelli...
- Frentani, and, more generically, Osco-Umbrian Aequi, Praetutii, Vestini,
Marrucini,
Marsi and Peligni.
Considered strong warriors by
ancient writers, they...
-
Mountains and the
Adriatic Sea,
bounded by
Apulia to the
south and the
Marrucini to the north.
Although often described as a
Samnite offshoot, the Frentani...
