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+ | ====== ⚜ The Origins of the Name ' | ||
+ | //**Where does the name ' | ||
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+ | In remote times, going back to the Bronze Age and dated between the 18th and 17th centuries B.C. there was the great maritime migration of the Arcadians from the Aegean towards Southern Italy. Guided by their mythical king Oenotro, these people were called Oenotrians. | ||
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+ | From their expansion and mixings with the local populations, | ||
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+ | The Latins probably also descended from the Oenotrians, but instead were pushed a bit further North. It has been shown that between the 16th and the 15th centuries B.C. several populations speaking diverse Indoeuropean idioms had already penetrated in Italy. | ||
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+ | These populations represent the result of the overlapping and in many ways a blending of a first wave of Indoeuropea in Italy with an existing non-Indoeuropean sub-layer like that very ancient Iberian-Caucasian, | ||
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+ | The Pelasgi were perhaps the first inhabitants of the Palatine, the hill on which Rome would later rise, and perhaps the very ancient town called " | ||
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+ | Therefore the Central-Southern part of Italy outlines a scenario very similar to that verified previously in Greece, where the Pelasgi, an antique Mediterranean population who lived in Tessalia, the Peloponnesian, | ||
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+ | The Arcadi, originally from Peloponnesia, | ||
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+ | The Itali lived in the southern part of present-day Calabria, that is, within the " | ||
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+ | And so the name " | ||
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+ | From this, the name " | ||
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+ | Many tales about contacts between the Aegean world and the Italic world make references to more recent migrations than the first Arcadian immigration, | ||
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+ | During that period, the late Bronze Age, almost half of the Italic peninsula was made up of migrants from various places within the Aegean-Anatolic area. | ||
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+ | This half consisted partly of people speaking Indoeuropean idioms, like Arcadians of Evandro, of whom the presence on the Roman hills of the Palatine would be dated to 60 years before the Trojan war or, like Ulysses' | ||
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+ | The other half was made up of Mediterranean populations very similar to the Pelasgi but not speaking proper Indoeuropean languages and identified as Maritime Populations, | ||
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+ | Source: Fabrizio Bianco (c) 2002, Inside Lazio; Ancient Italian Regions, "a brief introduction to the origins of the name ' | ||
+ | If you would like additional information you can write directly to the author |