Marrucini
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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, limited by the Aterno and Foro Rivers. Other Marrucinian centers included Ceio (San Valentino in Abruzzo Citeriore), Iterpromium (whose ruins are under the Abbey of San Clemente at Casauria), Civitas Danzica (Rapino), and the port of Aternum (Pescara), shared with the Vestini.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Marrucinian
- Language.region
- Italy
- Language.era
- 2nd century BC
- Language.familycolor
- Indo-European
- Language.fam2
- Italic
- Language.fam3
- Osco-Umbrian
- Language.fam4
- Oscan
- Language.script
- Old Italic alphabet
- Language.iso3
- umc
- Language.linglist
- umc
- Language.glotto
- marr1267
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- ethnic group
- Participant in
- Pyrrhic War
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- time period
- classical antiquity
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Language
- Gentes of Marrucini origin
- Legacy
- References
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, limited by the Aterno and Foro Rivers. Other Marrucinian centers included Ceio (San Valentino in Abruzzo Citeriore), Iterpromium (whose ruins are under the Abbey of San Clemente at Casauria), Civitas Danzica (Rapino), and the port of Aternum (Pescara), shared with the Vestini.
==History== The tribe is first mentioned in history as a member of a confederacy with which the Romans came into conflict in the second Samnite War, 325 BC, and it entered the Roman Alliance as a separate unit at the end of that war (see further Paeligni).
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